Time to explore another complex corner of cardiology with a new expert guest to lend a hand. In this episode we’re going to be thinking about channelopathies. Which ones do you as a cardiology trainee need to be aware of? What are the causes? How do we diagnose and manage them? All will become clear, we hope, after you listen to Episode 9 of Med Reg News today.

We’re delighted to be joined by the fantastic Prof Pier Lambiase, consultant cardiologist and the Professor of Cardiology at University College London and Barts Heart Centre. Prof Lambiase breaks down this tricky topic into manageable chunks for us today, and we trust that you’ll all take as many helpful tips away from it as we did from chatting to him!

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Links:

Brugada calculator: www.brugadariskscore.com 

Brugada drugs website: www.brugadadrugs.org

ESC guidelines on sudden cardiac death (published August 2022): https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Ventricular-Arrhythmias-and-the-Prevention-of-Sudden-Cardiac-Death 

JACC EP paper about the BRUGADA-RISK score by Prof Lambiase and colleagues (published 2021): https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacep.2020.08.032