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.
Dr Amanda Sathyapala
- Curated for: Secondary care doctors & Students
- Subject: Respiratory medicine
45 Minutes
26 Apr 2022 
Professor Charalambos Antoniades
Consultant cardiologist
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
50 Minutes
05 Apr 2022 Dr Vias Markides discusses modern methods of diagnosis, risk stratification and reduction, and customised treatment for patients presenting atrial fibrillation.
Dr Vias Markides
Consultant cardiologist, Divisional director for heart at Royal Brompton Hospital and Medical Director
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology
55 minutes
31 Mar 2022
Professor Adrian Egli
Head of Department, Clinical Microbiology at the University Hospital of Basel
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
24 Mar 2022 This talk focuses on the role of microbial dysbiosis in chronic rejection in lung transplantation.
Dr Nirmal S Sharma
Assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
17 Mar 2022 Dr Amelia Shoemark discusses Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) and why it is an underdiagnosed cause of severe adult bronchiectasis.
Dr Amelia Shoemark
Lead Clinical Scientist
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
15 Mar 2022 This talk focuses on pulmonary complications of targeted therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors used in solid tumours and important pulmonary complications seen in haematologic malignancies.
Dr Ricardo José
Consultant in respiratory medicine
Dr Jeffrey Thompson
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Curated For : Nurse & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 Hour
09 Mar 2022 Our consultant cardiologist, Dr Miles Dalby, outlines the management of valvular heart disease, highlighting the transcatheter therapies available.
Dr Miles Dalby
Consultant cardiologist
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiac surgery & Cardiology & Thoracic surgery
50 Minutes
03 Mar 2022 This talk explores a pioneering new technique, endobronchial optical coherence tomography for minimally invasive, volumetric microscopic imaging in interstitial lung disease.
Dr Lida Hariri
Assistant Professor of Pathology
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
25 Feb 2022 Dr Wala Mattar’s talk focuses on diagnosis and immediate and long term management of acute coronary syndrome.
Dr Wala Mattar
Consultant general and interventional cardiologist
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Cardiology
50 minutes
24 Feb 2022 This talk provides an overview of the management and prognosis of rare lung diseases, looking at the differential diagnosis in detail.
- Curated For : Nurse & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
1 hour
17 Feb 2022 This talk provides an overview of TAVI, delving into what the future holds and what has been accomplished to date.
Professor Bernard Prendergast
Consultant cardiologist at St Thomas' Hospital
- Curated For : Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiac surgery
1 hour
17 Feb 2022 
Professor Jane Davies
Consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine
Professor Nicholas Simmonds
Associate director and consultant physician of Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Royal Brompton Hospital.
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Paediatrics & Respiratory medicine
1 hour