Cardiac Consult: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast for Healthcare Professionals

Walid Saliba, MD provides an overview of the PINNACLE and OPTION Trials.

It can be challenging to manage lymphedema. It is a chronic disease that requires patients' adherence to the treatment plan. Dr. Douglas Joseph, one of the medical directors of the multi-disciplinary lymphedema clinic, provides an overview of lymphedema management.

Paul Cremer, MD, provides an overview of imaging modalities for detection and assessment, Andrew Bauer, MD, discusses the intraoperative CTA perspective, and Sagar Kalahasti, MD, highlights postoperative management and considerations.

Sudden cardiac arrest or death can be traumatic for everyone involved. The important thing to focus on is immediate emergency medical attention and resuscitation. Dr. Michael Emery and Dr. Tamanna Singh, Co-Directors of the Sports Cardiology Center, discuss considerations for patients who have experienced sudden cardiac arrest on the field.

Overview of the Phases of Care: Dr. Joanna Ghobrial - Preoperative Phase: Diagnosis, Optimizing Medical Tx, and When to Intervene, Dr. Eric Roselli - Intraoperative Surgical / Interventional Perspective: Open vs Endo vs Hybrid, and Dr. Margaret Fuchs - Postoperative Phase: Lifestyle Recommendations and Providing Lifelong Care and Surveillance.

The Ventricular Arrhythmia Center at Cleveland Clinic utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to managing patients with VT. Oussama Wazni, MD, MBA, speaks with Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, the Director of the Ventricular Arrhythmia Center, about treatment techniques for patients with ventricular arrhythmias.

Milind Desai, MD provides an overview of the preoperative phase: screening, watchful waiting, and moving forward, and Patrick Vargo, MD, discusses the intraoperative surgical perspective: valve options and how much aorta do I resect?

The American Diabetes Associate released their 2023 Standards of Care with updated practice recommendations and guidelines this month. Natalie Salvatore, RN, and Dennis Bruemmer, MD, PhD, discuss the highlights and changes as well as what you need to know to best care for patients with diabetes and heart disease.

Dr. Patrick Collier provides an overview of the multidisciplinary approach to Cleveland Clinic's Cardiovascular Oncology Center.

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited lipid disorder affecting 1 in 220 individuals resulting in highly elevated low-density lipoprotein levels and risk of premature coronary disease. Dr. Leslie Cho and Dr. Ashish Sarraju discuss some of the nuances of managing patients with FH.