J. Swampillai

TL;DR: This expert consensus statement task force was set down to raise awareness of using the right risk assessment tool for a given outcome in a given population, and to provide physicians with practical proposals that may lead to rational and evidence-based risk assessment and improvement of patient care in this regard.

TL;DR: There is a higher incidence of STEMI during winter in the Waikato region compared with summer, and this increased incidence is particularly pronounced in patients over 70 years of age.

TL;DR: The New Zealand Cardiac Implanted Device Registry (Device) has recently been developed under the auspices of the New Zealand Branch of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A 16-year-old female from Samoa with no known prior illness presented with a fever, and was febrile, tachycardic with mild hypotension, visible carotid neck pulsations, and had a long early diastolic murmur, with no signs of left ventricular failure.

TL;DR: How a feature designed to prevent pacemaker-mediated tachycardia can itself be arrhythmogenic is described, which is a case of inappropriate automatic mode switching of a dual chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) induced by a ventricular escape rhythm.