Explore every episode of the podcast EHRA Cardio Talk
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| Arrhythmias in pregnancy | 05 Jan 2026 | 00:25:18 | |
With Kristina Haugaa, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo - Norway, Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia and Augusto Meretta, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden - The Netherlands. During this podcast, Kristina Haugaa, Augusto Meretta and Stefan Simovic will explore how to diagnose and manage arrhythmias safely during pregnancy, balancing maternal and fetal health through multidisciplinary, evidence-based care. | |||
| My favourite studies in 2025 | 01 Dec 2025 | 00:32:47 | |
With Andrea Sarkozy, University Hospital (UZ) Brussels, Brussels - Belgium and Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia. During this podcast Andrea Sarkozy and Stefan Simovic will discuss the most impactful studies in electrophysiology published in 2025, highlighting key findings, clinical implications, and how they may influence future practice. | |||
| From subclinical to clinical AF: unmasking AHREs | 28 Feb 2025 | 00:29:10 | |
With Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia, and Gregory Y.H. Lip, University of Liverpool, Liverpool - UK. This episode will tackle the current status and management of subclinical atrial fibrillation and atrial high rate episodes. | |||
| Non-transvenous ICDs | 29 Jan 2025 | 00:31:19 | |
With Lucas Boersma, St.Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein - The Netherlands, and Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia. Join us for an exciting episode on non-transvenous ICDs, exploring their advantages and future potential.
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| EHRA Updated Core Curriculum | 02 Jan 2025 | 00:23:57 | |
With Doctor Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia, Serge Trines, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden - The Netherlands and Philip Moore, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London - UK This episode focuses on the EHRA Updated Core Curriculum. | |||
| My favourite studies in 2024 | 29 Nov 2024 | 00:21:42 | |
With Arian Sultan, St. Georg Heart Center Asklepios Clinic Hamburg - Germany, Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia and David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany. This episode is a 2024 overview of Arian Sultan's favourite studies. | |||
| Best evidence in EP | 04 Nov 2024 | 00:25:55 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany, Stefan Simovic, Clinical Center Kragujevac & Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac - Serbia, and John Mandrola, Baptist Health, Louisville - USA. This episode strives for the best evidence together with John Mandrola. | |||
| Gender Differences in EP | 01 Oct 2024 | 00:20:04 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany, and Janet Han, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare and University of California Los Angeles - United States of America. This podcast will tackle gender differences in cardiac arrhythmias and in EP careers. | |||
| Vision of the new EHRA President | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:27:46 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany, and Helmut Pürerfellner, Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen, Linz - Austria In this episode, the incoming EHRA President, Helmut Pürerfellner, tells us how his EHRA journey started and shares his vision for the next couple of years. | |||
| Guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure in patients with implantable devices | 01 Aug 2024 | 00:31:14 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany, and Giuseppe Boriani, Modena Polyclinic Modena University Hospital, Modena - Italy. This episode will tackle GDMT in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices: Heart failure medication optimization, ICD indications, remote monitoring.
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| Cardioneuroablation | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:17:38 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany, and Tolga Aksu, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul - Turkey. David Duncker and Tolga Aksu discuss Cardioneuroablation and especially the upcoming EHRA/HRS/LAHRS/APHRS document on this topic, that will be published this year. | |||
| Pulsed Field Ablation | 03 Jun 2024 | 00:21:37 | |
With Serge Boveda, (Guest), Clinic Pasteur, Toulouse - France & David Duncker,(Host) Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany | |||
| Sustainability in electrophysiology | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:32:44 | |
With Carsten W Israel, Bethel-Clinic, Bielefeld - Germany, and Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac - Serbia. During this podcast, Carsten Israel and Stefan Simovic will discuss how electrophysiology can adopt sustainable practices while maintaining high-quality patient care. | |||
| Electrical storm | 02 May 2024 | 00:14:50 | |
With Radoslaw Lenarczyk (Guest), Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases (SCHD), Zabrze - Poland & David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany | |||
| EHRA-HRS-APHRS-LAHRS Expert Consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of AF | 09 Apr 2024 | 00:30:16 | |
With Stylianos Tzeis (Guest), Cardiology Department and Electrophysiology & Cardiac Pacing Section in Mitera Hospital, Hygeia Group in Athens - Greece and David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany. | |||
| Prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in the general population and how to tackle them | 01 Mar 2024 | 00:20:39 | |
With José Luis Merino (Guest), La Paz University Hospital, Madrid - Spain, Elena Arbelo (Guest), University Hospital of Barcelona - Spain & David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany. | |||
| Sudden Cardiac Death | 01 Feb 2024 | 00:19:09 | |
With Eloi Marijon (Guest), European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris - France, David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany & Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University Hospital of Poitiers - France. | |||
| AF ablation as first line therapy | 01 Jan 2024 | 00:25:12 | |
With Jason Andrade (Guest), Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver - Canada and David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany. | |||
| My favourite studies 2023 | 01 Dec 2023 | 00:25:40 | |
With Julian Chun, Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Frankfurt - Germany and David Duncker, Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany. | |||
| Arrhythmic mitral valve prolapse | 01 Nov 2023 | 00:21:48 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany & Avi Sabbag, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan - Israel. | |||
| Digital education | 01 Oct 2023 | 00:26:21 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany & Dominik Linz (Host), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht - The Netherlands & Michael Lloyd (Guest) - Emory University in Atlanta - USA & Prashanthan Sanders (Guest) - Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide - Australia. | |||
| EHRA Education | 01 Sep 2023 | 00:26:11 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany, Marta de Riva Silva (Guest) (the Netherlands) and Helmut Pürerfellener (Austria) (Guest). This episode discusses the education in EP, in particular the new EHRA educational pathway. | |||
| EHRA Clinical Consensus Statement on CSP | 01 Aug 2023 | 00:27:42 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany and Haran Burri (Guest), Cardiology Department of the University Hospital of Geneva - Switzerland. This episode discusses the EHRA Clinical Consensus Statement on Conduction System Pacing CSP) implantation with lead author Haran Burri. | |||
| EHRA antiarrhythmic drugs document | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:24:22 | |
With Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia, Augusto Meretta, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden - The Netherlands, and Jose Luis Merino, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid - Spain. During this podcast, Jose Luis Merino, Stefan Simovic and Augusto Meretta will discuss key insights and innovations behind the 2025 EHRA practical compendium on antiarrhythmic drugs, including its new classification system, clinical guidance across Europe, drug interactions, combination therapies, and the future of pharmacological rhythm control. | |||
| Early days of electrophysiology | 30 Jun 2023 | 00:40:22 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany and Helmut Klein, former Head of the Division of Cardiology, Angiology and Pulmonary Care at Magdeburg - Germany and an adjunct Professor at the Univ. of Rochester, USA. This podcast provides insights into the early days of electrophysiology with Prof. Helmut Klein and Prof. David Duncker. | |||
| Future of Digital Health | 01 Jun 2023 | 00:28:47 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany and Sanjiv Narayan (guest), Stanford University in Stanford - United States of America. This episode tackles Digital medicine in EP with Prof Sanjiv Narayan and Prof David Duncker. They discuss digital devices, artificial intelligence and future perspectives in digital medicine in EP. | |||
| New technologies for AF ablation | 02 May 2023 | 00:27:22 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany and Tom De Potter (guest), OLV Hospital Aalst, Aalst - Belgium. This podcast will tackle new technologies for AF ablation: high power, ultra-low cryo and pulsed-field ablation. | |||
| EHRA 2023 congress | 03 Apr 2023 | 00:24:32 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center -Germany & Andrea Sarkozy (Guest), University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium & Serge Boveda (Guest), Clinique Pasteur in Toulouse - France. This podcast will tackle the EHRA 2023 congress: the two scientific program committee chairs will discuss new congress content and some personal congress memories. | |||
| EP Europace journal | 01 Mar 2023 | 00:25:25 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany and Angelo Auricchio (guest), Cardiocentro Ticino in Lugano - Switzerland. This episode tackles the Europace journal with the new Editor in Chief Prof Angelo Auricchio discussing the new concept, some insights and personal anecdotes with Prof David Duncker | |||
| Genetic testing for cardiac diseases | 01 Feb 2023 | 00:22:05 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Germany, Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University hospital of Poitiers - France, Arthur Wilde (Guest), Heart Centre Division, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam - The Netherlands & Elijah Behr (Guest), St George's University of London - United Kingdom. This podcast discusses the evolution and current indication of genetic testing for cardiac diseases | |||
| Brugada syndrome by Pedro Brugada | 02 Jan 2023 | 00:30:40 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany, Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University hospital of Poitiers - France & Pedro Brugada (Guest), University Of Brussels, Brussels - Belgium. In this episode, Prof David Duncker and Dr Rodrigue Garcia speak with Prof Pedro Brugada. They will talk about 30 years of Brugada syndrome - about the beginning, changing approaches and the future.
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| My favorite studies 2022 | 01 Dec 2022 | 00:31:03 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany & Philipp Sommer (guest), clinic for electrophysiology, Heart and Diabetes center in Bad Oeynhausen - Germany This podcast will tackle Philipp Sommer's favorite studies 2022: 1) Gasperetti et al.: Programmed Ventricular Stimulation as an Additional Primary Prevention Risk Stratification Tool in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopath (doi: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.060866) 2) PARTITA trial (doi: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059598) 3) ERASE-AF trial (doi: https://doi.org/10.1056/EVIDoa2200141) | |||
| Evidence for Physiological pacing | 03 Nov 2022 | 00:25:21 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany, Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University hospital of Poitiers and Kevin Vernooy (Guest), Maastricht University - The Netherlands. David Duncker and Rodrigue Garcia host Prof Kevin Vernooy to talk about physiological pacing. | |||
| Antiarrhythmic drug therapy | 01 Oct 2022 | 00:23:15 | |
With Federico Guerra (Host), Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona - Italy, Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University hospital of Poitiers & John Camm (Host), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland This podcast tackles antiarrhythmic drugs in the setting of atrial fibrillation ablation management | |||
| 2025 ESC-EHRA Atlas on Heart Rhythm Disorders | 01 Sep 2025 | 00:29:33 | |
With Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia, Vera Maslova, University Medical Center of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel - Germany, Daniel Scherr Medical University of Graz, Austria, and Michal Farkowski, Ministry of Interior and Administration National Medical Institute, Warsaw, Poland. During this podcast Daniel Scherr, Michal Farkowski, Stefan Simovic and Vera Maslova will explore the newly published 2025 ESC-EHRA Atlas on Heart Rhythm Disorders, featured in EP Europace journal offering key insights into global arrhythmia care. | |||
| 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death | 01 Sep 2022 | 00:27:13 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Germany, Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University hospital of Poitiers, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen (Guest), Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Forensic Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Katja Zeppenfeld (Guest) Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands. This podcast tackles the newly released 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. | |||
| The future to EHRA | 01 Aug 2022 | 00:24:09 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center - Germany, Christophe Leclercq (Guest), C.H.U. Pontchaillou, Rennes, France & Jose Luis Merino (Host), Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain This podcast hosts the president and president-elect of EHRA and tackles current benefits and future directions of the association. | |||
| Gaps in knowledge in EP | 01 Jul 2022 | 00:21:08 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Germany & Gerhard Hindricks (guest), University of Leipzig, Heartcenter, Germany. This podcast tackles gaps in knowledge in EP and how we need to address them in the future. | |||
| EP fellowships | 01 Jun 2022 | 00:23:58 | |
David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany and Katarzyna Malaczynska-Rajpold (Guest), Royal Brompton Hospital, London - United Kingdom - UK. This podcast tackles tips and tricks to complete your EP fellowship | |||
| Integrated care in arrhythmia patients | 02 May 2022 | 00:21:50 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover – Germany, Dominik Linz (host), MUMC Maastricht Heart en Vaat Centrum - Netherlands and Jeroen Hendricks (guest), Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University - Sweden, and the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, University of Adelaide - Australia. This podcast will tackle and discuss the role of integrated care for patients with atrial fibrillation | |||
| Early AF management | 01 Apr 2022 | 00:19:27 | |
With David Duncker (host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany and Paulus Kirchhof, (host), University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg - Germany. This podcast tackles insights into structured AF management and the evidence for performing it early. | |||
| The EHRA experience | 01 Mar 2022 | 00:23:38 | |
With Dominik Linz (Host), MUMC Maastricht Hart en Vaat Centrum - The Netherlands, Rodrigue Garcia (Host), University hospital of Poitiers - France & Isabelle Van Gelder (Guest), University Medical Center Groningen - The Netherlands, Tom De Potter (Guest), OLV Hospital Aalst - Belgium | |||
| The EHRA consensus on Device implantation | 01 Feb 2022 | 00:24:59 | |
With David Duncker, (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany and Haran Burri, (Guest), University Hospital of Geneva - Switzerland. This podcast tackles the EHRA 2021 consensus document on device implantation techniques, discusses its content and provides some background information provided by the document chair and first author. | |||
| My favourite studies in 2021 | 03 Jan 2022 | 00:29:51 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Medical School, Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover, Germany, Dominik Linz (Host), Maastricht University Medical Centre and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, The Netherlands and Dhiraj Gupta, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, United Kingdom | |||
| Esophageal complications related to AF ablation | 01 Dec 2021 | 00:28:47 | |
With David Duncker (Host), Hannover Medical School, Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover, Germany and Thomas Deneke, (Guest), Clinic for Interventional Electrophysiology, Heart Center RHÖN-KLINIKUM Campus, Bad Neustadt, Germany Link: https://ag-ep.de/austausch/ This podcast will tackle 'Esophageal lesions in AF ablation' and more particularly:
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| State of the art of artificial intelligence in clinical electrophysiology - scientific statement | 28 Jul 2025 | 00:29:06 | |
With Emma Svennberg, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm - Sweden, Sabine Ernst, Royal Brompton Hospital, London - UK, Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia and Dominik Linz, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht - The Netherlands. During this podcast, Emma Svennberg, Sabine Ernst, Stefan Simovic and Dominik Linz will tackle EHRA–ESC–HRS scientific statement sets new standards for trustworthy AI in electrophysiology, using a 29-item reporting checklist. | |||
| AF Screening | 01 Nov 2021 | 00:26:06 | |
With David Duncker (Host) , Hannover Medical School, Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover - Germany and Emma Svennberg, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm - Sweden This podcast will tackle 'Screening for AF' and more particularly:
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| NOAC practical guide | 21 Sep 2021 | 00:23:21 | |
With David Duncker (Host) , Hannover heart rhythm centre, Hannover medical school, Hannover - Germany & Jan Steffel (Invitee), University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland This podcast will tackle 'Screening for AF' and more particularly:
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| Conduction system pacing indications | 01 Jul 2025 | 00:28:10 | |
With Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia, Jacopo Francesco Imberti, Modena Polyclinic Modena University Hospital, Modena - Italy, Haran Burri, Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Geneva - Switzerland and Michael Glikson, Jesselson Integrated Heart Center of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem - Israel. In this podcast, Haran Burri, Michael Glikson, Stefan Simovic and Jacopo Imberti will discuss Conduction system pacing indications. This 2025 EHRA Cardio Talk Keep the rhythm podcast series is supported by Medtronic in the form of unrestricted financial support. The discussion has not been influenced in any way by its sponsor. | |||
| SCD prevention in HFrEF population | 30 May 2025 | 00:25:53 | |
With David Duncker, Hannover Heart Rhythm Center, Hannover - Germany, Marco Metra, University of Brescia, Brescia - Italy, Micaela Ebert, Heart Center, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden - Germany, and Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia During this podcast Marco Metra, David Duncker, Stefan Simovic & Mica Ebert will discuss sudden cardiac death prevention (SCD) in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). This 2025 EHRA Cardio Talk Keep the rhythm podcast series is supported by ZOLL Cardiac Management Solutions in the form of unrestricted financial support. The discussion has not been influenced in any way by its sponsors. | |||