Since 2022  presentations at the Bi-annual VCS congresses have been recorded as a resource for our members. Delegates with digital access will get exclusive access to the recordings for one year, after this year links to the recordings will be posted here.
**These links can be followed by clicking on the name of the video you would like to view**

Presenting at a congress is an opportunity open to all VCS members, if you would like to contribute to one of our upcoming congresses the committee would love to hear from you.

Spring 2024 – Feline Cardiology

• Sildenafil in cats with pleural effusion (Rachel James)
• Future therapies for subclinical feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Joshua Stern)
• From ‘HCM’ to ‘not HCM’ and the other way around – (Jose Novo Matos)
• ‘Everything, everywhere, all at once’. A chaotic feline heart case with no easy solutions and no Oscar (Vicky Ironside)
• Complexes, complexities and collapsing in cats with cardiomyopathy- (Julia Sargent)
• Atrioventricular Septal Defect in a Cat (William Davis)
• Advanced Cardiology Review – Alistair Gibson Memorial Grant (Kat Smiejan)
• Mind altering drugs, exotic animals, a corkscrew and a vibrator – the trials of (human) stroke research-
• Panel Discussion Aortic thromboembolism

Autumn 2023 – Sudden Cardiac Death

• Oh Deer – We’ve Holtered Our Opinion (Matthew Keane)
• Sudden Cardiac Death In Athletes (Professor Sanjay Sharma)
• ECVIM Update 2023 (Eva Pavelkova and Ian Johnson)
• When Is An Exercising Rhythm Dangerous (Kathryn Mitchell)
• Sudden Death in Racing Thoroughbreds (Catriona Lyle)
• When the Beat Stops (Pascale Smets)
• Copper and Sudden Death in Greyhounds (Mike Davies)
• Three Dimensional Echocardiographic assessment of the equine aortic root (John Keene)
• Interactive Aortic Root Cases (Lesley Young)
• Bubble Trouble (Luke Beeby)
• ACVIM Update (Pippi Gould and Shamanthi Shanker)

Spring 2023 – Focus on ultrasound techniques

• The Benefit Survey: Echocardiographers’ preferences for left atrial size assessment in dogs (Momo Kuo)
• Lung Ultrasound B lines and beyond (Daria Starybrat)
• Cardiology and echocardiography in non-domestic mammals (Laurent Locquet)
• Quantifying mitral regurgitation in dogs with degenerative myxomatous valvular disease (Gavin McCauley)
• A review of the DELAY study: Thoughts and opinions on the use of ACEi and spironolactone in the preclinical phases of MMVD
• ASE/ACVIM/ECVIM/ESVC guidelines on transthoracic echocardiography in dogs and cats
• All because of Alistair
• Alistair Gibson Memorial Grant Lecture

Autumn 2022 – Equine Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

• Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in the Horse (Charlotte Hopster-Iversen)
• Micro atrial fibrillation in a dog (Ewelina Korzybska)
• Long term training induces slowing of the cardiac conduction system in Standardbred racehorses (Sarah Dalgas Nissen)
• Advances in open heart surgery congenital repairs and others (Poppy Bristow)
• Equine cardiology: Where we were (1980s), where are we now and where might we go next (Mark Patterson)
• Cardiac Surgery: Managing the complex cases (Marc Kraus)
• Cardiac Spaghetti: Prevention and management of Heartworm disease (Marc Kraus)
• Mitral Transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER) in dogs (Kieran Borgeat)
• Collapse and sudden cardiac death in a young wired hair Dachshund (Laura Korenchy)
• HCM in a dog masquerading as lymphocytic myocarditis (Jose Novo Matos)
• Arrhythmia management: When standard approaches dont work (Anna Gelzer)
• ECVIM Update (Margarida Silva)
• ECVIM Update (Katie Howell)
• ACVIM Update (Julie Hamilton Elliott)
• ACVIM Update (Ewelina Korzybska)
• The history and changing face of companion animal cardiology (Chris Little)

Spring 2022 

• The use of MicroRNAs as biomarkers in heart disease (Eve Hanks)
• RAAS antagonism: The human perspective (Dr Moahamed Anwar)
• RAAS antagonism: The Veterinary perspective (Rachel James)
• From diabetes to die another day: SGLT2 inhibitors (Geoff Culshaw)
• Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation Vulnerability in Obese Patients (Corina Schram-Serban)
• Discovering the feline cardiac miRNome in health and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Jessica Joshua)
• Another brick in the wall – my experiences in mitral valve disease research (Melanie Hezzell)
• Alistair Gibson memorial grant – Advanced qualifications within the charity sector (Sophie Andrews)