The BJCA are putting on a Webinar Series throughout September titled Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation – Essential Knowledge for Every Cardiology Trainee.

An outstanding panel of speakers will join in virtually to discuss the current and future direction of TAVI in the UK, how to become confident in assisting as an operator, developing your skills in managing post procedural complication and more. This will be an interactive event where delegates will be able to participate via the Q&A function and Sli.Do.

The webinars take place 17:30-19:30 on Wednesday the 1st, 8th and 15th September, further details on each are below:

Webinar 1 – 1st September – Optimal patient selection and work-up for TAVI in 2021

Webinar 2 – 8th September – From scrub-in to scrub-out – procedural steps in contemporary transfemoral TAVI

Webinar 3 – 15th September – Complications and longer term management after TAVI – what every trainee should know

Find out more and register your place below.

The second in the series of the BCIS Educational Forum webianrs took place on Tuesday 11th May.

Titled “Bifurcation PCI”, the speaker for the session was Dr Mark Mariathas, Interventional Fellow – University Hospitals Dorset. The supervisor for the session was Dr Peter O’Kane, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist – University Hospitals Dorset.

You can watch the full webinar on-demand below

The first in the series of the BCIS Educational Forum webinars took place on Tuesday 13th April and was titled Basic Equipment Talk

Dr Tom Gilpin or Southampton University hospital led the talk, supervised by Dr Jeremy Langrish of John Radcliffe Hospital.

Topics covered include; Angioplasty wires, Balloons (Semi-compliant, NC, cutting), and Stents – platform design – how do I decide which stent to use?

You can watch the full webinar on-demand below

Dear BCIS member,

We would like to invite expressions of interest from enthusiastic and committed BCIS members keen to have a role in the educational development of the allied healthcare professional members of our Society.

The AHP Annual Summer Conference 2021

The AHP Group Summer Conference is traditionally a two-day face to face conference held in June each year, attracting around 175 attendees.  Due to the continued disruption caused by the COVID pandemic, for the second year, this conference will be held as a live virtual experience for two half days.

This year’s conference will be held on the afternoons of Monday 28^th and Tuesday 29^th June.

Expressions of Interest are invited from surgical centres to partner up with a pre-selected non-surgical centre.

The programme for 2021 has not yet been developed but previously combines pre-recorded live cases, lecture presentations and industry training demonstrations.  It is intended that the successful applicants will join a ZOOM meeting to agree the content of the programme and their role in it. The next meeting of this group will be on Tuesday 30 March between 09:30 and 15:30.

Eligibility/Unit and nominee Specification

Applications are open from the BCIS membership, and it is expected that the lead applicant will be an allied health professional from a surgical centre who has attended previous BCIS AHP Conferences and experienced in the clinical practice of interventional cardiology.  The AHP submitting this nomination will be supported by a consultant interventional cardiologist who is also a BCIS member.  Both interested parties must be named individuals.

Application

Application is by self-nomination, with reference to the specification above. A supporting statement from the candidate, no more than 1 side of A4, which includes the details of the supporting consultant cardiologist and specifically addresses their Unit’s suitability for co-hosting this year’s conference must accompany the nomination in order for the application to be valid.

The closing date is Tuesday 2^nd March at 5pm.

If you wish to apply please do so by e-mail to BCIS@millbrookconferences.co.uk   by the closing date of Tuesday 2^nd March at 5pm, including a statement in support of your application.

If you have any questions relating to this role, please feel free to contact us for further information (douglasmuir@nhs.net or sarah.carson@uhbw.nhs.uk ).

With kind regards,

Douglas Muir
BCIS AHP Group Lead

BCIS is pleased to endorse The Royal Society of Medicine’s international COVID-19 conference which will bring together thought leaders from around the world to share the key clinical learnings about COVID-19.

The webinar will consolidate our clinical understanding of the impact of the virus, in order to prepare for our future management of the pandemic.

An international faculty of health experts will distil the evidence and consider the key lessons learned globally during a series of four stimulating panel discussions:

• Respiratory effects: critical care and ventilation
• Impacts on the brain and the nervous systems
• Cardiovascular complications and the role of thrombosis
• Looking forward: research, vaccines and future management strategies

By examining the most effective ways of treating COVID-19 around the world,
and evaluating the human impact of the coronavirus pandemic, he RSM intend to
distil advice for improving patient treatment and share ways of mitigating the
impact of future outbreaks.

Register to watch this conference live and receive a link to watch on-demand
until the end of August.

Join in the conversation online using #RSMCOVIDConf

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that I enclose the latest R&D Group Literature Review.

I am grateful to Aung Myat, Julian Gunn, & Paul Morris for their contribution.

Best wishes,

Dr Michael Mahmoudi