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Written for cardiologists and cardiology trainees by a practising senior interventional cardiologist. Every article carries a named author, a review date and the trials it rests on. No listicles. No filler.

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Four clinical hubs

Each hub collects the full archive on that subject, oldest to newest.

ECG Interpretation

Reading sequences, ischaemia patterns, arrhythmia recognition and the traps.

Echocardiography

Normal values, quantification, valve assessment and reporting discipline.

Interventional Cardiology

PCI technique, antiplatelet strategy, complications and how to get out of them.

Board Exam Preparation

Study plans, high-yield question sets and the topics examiners keep returning to.

Editor’s pick

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ECG Interpretation · 9 min read

Most missed findings on an ECG are not subtle — they are simply outside the order in which the reader was looking. This article sets out a ten-step sequence that makes the order explicit, and identifies the four findings that should always be checked last, when the eye has stopped hunting for the obvious.

ATDr. A M ThirugnanamMD, MSICP, FSCAI, Ph.D. · Senior Interventional Cardiologist
The archive

Recent articles

Nine published pieces and counting — the programme adds one most working days.

ECG Interpretation · 9 min read

A ten-step order of examination that stops you missing the finding you were not looking for — rate, rhythm, axis, intervals, chambers, ischaemia, and the four things read last.

ECG Interpretation · 11 min read

Evolution from hyperacute T waves to Q-wave formation, plus the STEMI equivalents that do not meet millimetre criteria and still occlude an artery.

Echocardiography · 8 min read

The reference ranges worth committing to memory, the ones worth looking up, and why the difference matters in a report.

Interventional Cardiology · 12 min read

Where TWILIGHT, MASTER DAPT and the bleeding-risk scores actually leave us — and how to decide for the patient in front of you.

Interventional Cardiology · 10 min read

Mechanisms, prevention and what genuinely works once the flow has gone. Written from the operator’s side of the table.

Board Exam Preparation · 9 min read

Definite, probable, possible. Timing classification, predictors, and the answer examiners are listening for.

Board Exam Preparation · 14 min read

Week by week, with the reading, the question load and the revision cycles mapped out for a working registrar.

Board Exam Preparation · 10 min read

The question stems that recur across DM, DNB and NEET-SS papers, with the reasoning rather than just the key.

Echocardiography · 7 min read

The measurements, windows and cut-offs you need at the machine, condensed to what fits on a single screen.

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