Cardiovascular

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Cardiovascular

The BGS Cardiovascular SIG's aims and objectives are:

  • To improve the quality of care for people with cardiovascular disease
  • To promote the presentation and promotion of high quality research
  • To promote links with the British Cardiovascular Society and other medical societies with a cardiac interest
  • To attract and channel expertise from non-BGS members
  • To provide and co-ordinate expertise in the field of cardiology among members of the Society
  • To facilitate the networking of researchers for large-scale multi-centre studies
  • To provide an informal forum to present clinical work and research 

Video welcome from the Cardivascular SIG

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Resources

Resources from the BGS Cardiovascular SIG, including past event slides, videos and reports.

Ageing Meets Kidney Disease

12 Jul 2022

Learn more on the importance of diagnosis and managing chronic kidney disease in older adults through this collection from Age and Ageing in collaboration with the ERA journals Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) and Clinical Kidney Journal (CKJ).

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Developments in stroke medicine

20 Apr 2022

The field of stroke medicine has seen significant advances and there is an ever increasing awareness that there are real opportunities to make a dramatic difference to stroke patients. Age and Ageing has charted our progress, publishing key research, and sharing ground-breaking ideas and knowledge. This online collection showcases some of the very best of such work.

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Cardiovascular care in the older adult: Valvular heart disease

26 Jun 2020

This resource series, curated by the BGS Cardiovascular SIG, brings together key principles and guidelines on the management of cardiovascular disease in older adults. This chapter looks specifically at valvular heart disease.

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Webinar recording: Cardiovascular SIG Webinar - COVID19

25 Jun 2020

Content from the BGS Cardiovascular SIG Webinar - COVID19 which took place on 25 June 2020.

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Cardiovascular SIG Events

Upcoming and past events from the BGS Cardiovascular SIG

2022 Cardiovascular SIG meeting

Live 2 Sept 2022 On Demand until 2 Sept 2023
London
SIG Meeting

Cardiovascular SIG meeting 2021

Live 14 May 2021 - On Demand until 14 May 2021
ONLINE
SIG Meeting

Cardiovascular SIG Webinar - COVID19

25 June 2020
ONLINE

 A free virtual meeting utilising MS Teams Live Event to discuss the challenges we are facing in the current pandemic regarding older people cardiovascular diseases.

Webinar

Cardiovascular SIG: Brains & Hearts: Working Together

06 September 2019
LONDON
Event
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Latest news

Working together to understand kidney disease in older people

13 Jul 2022

The British Geriatrics Society and the European Renal Association have collaborated to produce a collection of articles from across their journals on the topic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in older people.

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Present your work at BGS meetings

13 Feb 2019

Do you have an interesting abstract presented elsewhere that you feel would also be of benefit to delegates at BGS meetings?

News

RCP finds care still variable for people with COPD

12 Apr 2018

The Royal College of Physicians has found that many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) wait too long for treatment. The RCP has made recommendations to increase take up of pulmonary rehabilitation programmes.

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Blogs

Virtual visiting, in some form, is here to stay

29 May 2020
Blog

BGS help launch Asian CardioGeriatrics Association

19 May 2020
Blog

Talking about dying during COVID-19

30 Apr 2020
Blog

Power of Syncope MDT

16 Oct 2019
Blog
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