More EP for me! Great to have the opportunity to attend sessions outside your own specialty! Dont think I am converted though!…….
Whilst anti-arrythmic drugs (AAD) are not without morbidity or mortality,  and radiofrequency ablation requires mutliple lesions and can be associated with complications, cryoablation offers PVI with a single continuous cryolesion.
But what are the complications?
The safety [...]

Just had a look at iScience….highly recommended!
Over 90 sessions covered, together with slides, full motion video and audio recorded live!
It does come at a cost, but if you are at the meeting you can get a special deal! And, if you are not at the conference you can buy at half price for the next [...]

Nothing like getting politicians in a room to pull the audience in! I managed to get a seat in what was a heated room!!!
Health Care reform is a contentious issue here and the reconciliation bill is likely to be voted upon at anytime by Congress!
The problem with both the US system and the NHS is [...]

5 year results of a registry comparing left main stem stenting vs. CABG in unprotected left main (MAIN-COMPARE), have been discussed. This was not randomised study like SYNTAX (1800 patients with multi-vessel disease and/or unprotected LMS).  However it included 2240 patients and propensity score matching was used to reduce the effect of treatment selection bias.
Results show that [...]

Time to educate the interventionist!
Not allowed to subject you to interventional device sessions (conflict of interest-ACC) and want to appeal to the wider cardiology community to get blogging!
This session (room is packed….about 300 folk!)  is focussing on the medical treatment of AF as opposed to the interventional treatment, describing the indication for the various  anti-arrhythmics [...]

Nothing can prepare you for the vastness of the place and the programme! The content of the meeting is quite extraordinary with a huge amount available immediately online as sessions start! Can’t beat that!! And everyone twitters here!!  I have had to learn to tweet!!!  RSI I fear by wednesday!
The exhibition is huge! 8 football [...]

An early start for those who made it and remembered to put the clock forward an hour (or rather back 4 hours instead of 5)!
This session covered important trials.  More later but click here for quick access to a summary and full slide presentation.

So, Dr Wes, your fellow blogging comrade has landed! 
I suspect the majority of planes landing in Atlanta this weekend have been packed with cardiologists (and surgeon!…what a brave man Dr Bradeley is from Sheffield and welcome!!). Would be interesting to see what happened if the cabin crew requested ‘is there a doctor onboard!?’
I have to [...]

Cardiosmart, the ACCs patient education website and the ACC Georgia Chapter are co-hosting a healthfair on 13 March to empower the local residents to improve their lifestyle……can only help as we see an increasing trend towards obesity in future generations! The British Heart Foundation website has some excellent information on how to keep your heart [...]

If you are ploughing through the programme (and check out your programme and planner here!) here is a little light relief..a trailer for the show in Atlanta! Doesn’t tell you much but does give an insight into the dress code for doctors in the US..white coats (long sleeves..!) with ties (have they heard of infection [...]