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Introduction Cardiac implant electronic devices (CIED) are undertaken under local anaesthetic by cardiologists. Patient experience is a key metric by which the delivery of healthcare is assessed, and, for CIED implantation, optimal peri-procedural pain management is central to patient experience. A recent study has highlighted that significant procedural pain in CIED implantation is underestimated and poorly predicted.1 According to the James Lind Alliance, a collaboration of British patients, carers and clinicians that set research priorities in anaesthesia and peri-operative medicine, several research themes relating to improving patient ex

News from ERS High levels of anxiety and depression in PH Psychological morbidity remains under-diagnosed in pulmonary hypertension (PH), and one third of patients suffer from depression and/or anxiety for which only 38% are being treated, according to a study conducted by Dr Gina Somaini and colleagues (University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland). They investigated the prevalence and course of anxiety and depression and their association with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) disease markers and survival over a mean period of 16 months. In the study, 45 newly diagnosed and 86 pretreated patients with arterial and chronic thromboembolic

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Introduction Palpitations present frequently in primary care, and are the second most common reason for a general practitioner (GP) to refer a patient to a cardiologist.1 Levels of distress and health concern are high in this patient group, even though most of these patients do not have demonstrable heart arrhythmias.2 Moreover, it is within this group with unexplained palpitations that psychiatric and psychological morbidity is highest.3,4 Given this background, we wondered how a patient with palpitations experienced the cardiology appointment, what effect it had on the perception of their cardiac symptoms, and whether this varied according

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