Jack Evans, Professor Joseph Suttie Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has offered an opportunity to improve processing time and diagnostic accuracy of radiological images (1). Deep learning is a subfield of AI that can analyse unstructured data in its raw form,...

Billy Poulden, Dr Audrey Adji, Professor Christopher Hayward Introduction Heart failure (HF) is a condition that occurs when a person’s heart is unable to pump enough blood to adequately supply the body. The rate of HF in the adult population of the developed world...

Harrison Hamblin, David Hodge, Hannah Nobes, Billy Poulden, Prof. Joseph Suttie Introduction Recent research highlights perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) as a significant factor in cardiovascular disease, releasing inflammatory cytokines in response to excessive caloric intake, and contributing to atherosclerosis.1 Traditional imaging struggles with detecting...

Dr Isabella Pak, Prof Joseph Suttie Introduction The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of Cardiology is being increasingly investigated and developed for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Currently there is evidence that deep learning improves the accuracy and diagnostic capabilities of cardiac...

Heath Darrant and Prof Joseph Suttie Introduction Systemic arterial hypertension (HTN) has been classified as a leading modifiable risk factors for all-cause mortality, with majority of patients deteriorating asymptomatically. For a patient to be classified as hypertensive, they must have at least one of...

Doctors from Wagga Wagga have won first prize at the Australia-New Zealand Medicine Research awards. Dr Lachlan Weir, Dr George Mallat and Associate Professor Joseph Suttie were grateful for all the local support. Research co-ordinator Simon Paton said, “We have seen an absolute explosion...

Dong Fang Zhao,  James Edelman, Michael Seco, Paul G. Bannon, Michael K. Wilson, Michael J. Byrom, Vinod Thourani, Andre Lamy, David P. Taggart, John D. Puskas, Michael P. Vallely Background Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains the standard of treatment for three-vessel and left...

Ruan Vlok Background Body Mass Index (BMI) has been shown to be associated with an obesity paradox in cardiothoracic surgical patients mortality. This is important, as it is commonplace to recommend weight loss pre-operatively.  Body Surface Area (BSA) has been shown to be a...

Ruan Vlok Introduction Out of hospital cardiac arrest is a time critical and heterogenous presentation. The most appropriate management strategies remain an issue for debate. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the association of epinephrine versus placebo with return...

Ruan Vlok Importance Currently there is no clear evidence as to which advanced airway device should be used during an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).To assess the difference in survival and neurological outcomes between endotracheal tube (ETT) intubation and supraglottic airway (SGA) devices used during...