EHRA Cardio Talk: Recent Episodes
European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)
Keep the Rhythm - EHRA Cardio Talk
The podcast series featuring key opinion leaders in electrophysiology and cardiac pacing tackling topics about EHRA papers, interviews of legends, and education.
You can also be interested in other ESC podcasts: ESC Cardio Talk, HFA Cardio Talk and ESC TV Today. Check them out!
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.
With Jean-Claude Deharo, Hospital La Timone Adults, Marseille - France, Professor Fabien Praz, Inselspital Bern - Switzerland, Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia and Vera Maslova, University Medical Center of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel - Germany.
This episode will tackle the EHRA Consensus document on management of patients with transvalvular leads undergoing percutaneous tricuspid clave interventions, focusing on assessment, procedural insights, post-procedure care, and expert perspectives.
This 2025 EHRA Cardio Talk podcast is supported by Philips in the form of unrestricted financial support. The discussion has not been influenced in any way by its sponsors.
With Stefan Simovic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac - Serbia, Stelios Tzeis, Mitera Hospital, Athens - Greece, and Natasja de Groot, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam - The Netherlands, and Dominik Linz, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht - The Netherlands.
During this podcast Stefan Simovic, Natasja de Groot, Stylianos Tzeis and Dominik Linz will tackle the EHRA 2025 Highlights (scientific breakthroughs, major trial results, latest news on in catheter ablation and leadless pacing).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With Serge Boveda, (Guest), Clinic Pasteur, Toulouse - France & David Duncker,(Host) Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany
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
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.
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.
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.
With Jason Andrade (Guest), Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver - Canada and David Duncker (Host), Hannover Heart Rhythm Centre, Hannover - Germany.
With Julian Chun, Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Frankfurt - Germany and David Duncker, Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany.
With David Duncker, Hannover Medical School, Hannover - Germany & Avi Sabbag, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan - Israel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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:
- what’s the problem ?
- risk factors
- diagnostic work-up
- how to avoid ?
- how to manage ?
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:
- why should we screen?
- screening modes?
- whom to screen?
- how to screen?
- new technologies for screening?
With David Duncker (Host) , Hannover heart rhythm centre, Hannover medical school, Hannover - Germany & Jan Steffel (Invitee), University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Link to practical guide
This podcast will tackle ‘Screening for AF’ and more particularly:
- why should we screen?
- screening modes?
- whom to screen?
- how to screen?
- new technologies for screening?