This Grand Round presented by Dr Amanda Sathyapala focuses on CPAP adherence in patient with obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr Amanda Sathyapala Background
Dr Amanda Sathyapala is a consultant respiratory physician, and clinical lead of the home ventilation service at Harefield hospital.
She is also a senior lecturer in the airways disease section of the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London.
Her clinical expertise includes respiratory failure, particularly chronic ventilatory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation, as a result of conditions such as COPD, bronchiectasis, chest wall disease, lung fibrosis, or following surgery. She also specialises in diagnosis and management of respiratory muscle weakness as well as sleep-disordered breathing, such as obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
She is one of only a few respiratory physicians delivering cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.
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Dr Carles Bautista provides an overview on how PIMS-TS affects the heart in patients after having COVID-19.
Dr Alexander Lyon, consultant cardiologist; Dr Peter George, consultant respiratory physician and Dr Matthew Hind, consultant respiratory physician, provide an overview of the cardiovascular and respiratory complications of Covid-19.
Dr Simon Davies and Dr Alison Duncan are joined by Assistant Professor Ahmad Elsayed Yousef from Ain Shams University, to discuss transcatheter valve repair.
Dr Laura Price is joined by Professor David Montani from the French National Referral Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension to discuss the rare pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. Â
This question and answer session focuses on arrhythmias and insights from pacemakers to rhythm disturbances.
Dr Abtehale Al-Hussaini’s provides guidance on the diagnosis and management of patients presenting with angina and acute coronary syndrome.
Dr Antonis Pantazis provides an overview of the diagnosis, risk stratification and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Professor Dudley Pennell, provides an overview of practice applications of diffusion imaging, giving the importance of current and future developments.
Dr Rakesh Sharma provides an overview on the pathophysiology of heart failure and implementing the latest NICE guidelines.
Dr Antonis Pantazis provides an overview of the diagnosis, risk stratification and management of left ventricular cardiomyopathy.
Dr Antonis Pantazis provides an overview of the diagnosis, risk stratification and management of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.