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The Heart of the Matter

The Next Disruptive Technologies: New Ways to Treat Old Diseases. This lecture offers a survey of the brilliant new breakthroughs in treatments for heart defects and their implications for medical practice more generally. Advances in prenatal diagnosis, fetal intervention and methods of imaging and functional assessment will be presented. The possibilities of gene therapy, regenerative medicine and stem-cell based tissue construction will be described, as well as the opportunities for monitoring patients directly by remote technology. This might minimize the need for direct doctor:patient contact, further reducing cost, but it does present the problem of ever-increasing volumes of data to manage. What affects are these changes having today, and how might they affect the future of medical services in this country and beyond?

Martin Elliott is Gresham Professor of Physic and Co-Medical Director at The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London (GOSH). He led the cardiorespiratory and thoracic transplant teams at GOSH for many years, and established, and is Director of the National Service for Severe Tracheal Disease in Children, the largest such service in the world. (from gresham.ac.uk)

06. The Next Disruptive Technologies: New Ways to Treat Old Diseases


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01. The Heart: An Introduction
02. Heart Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects - Science or Art?
03. The Ethical Challenges of New Treatments in Children
04. The Bristol Scandal and its Consequences: Politics, Rationalisation and the Use and Abuse of Information
05. Doing More for Less: Paediatric Cardiac Surgery After the Financial Crisis
06. The Next Disruptive Technologies: New Ways to Treat Old Diseases
07. Formula 1 and its Contributions to Healthcare
08. Aviation and its Contributions to Healthcare
09. To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture
10. How to Choose a Doctor or Surgeon
11. The Artificial Heart: A New Ending?
12. The Size of a Walnut: Your Heart in Their Hands
13. The Rhythm of Life: The Beat and Dance of the Heart
14. Seeing Through the Lies: Innovation and the Need for Transparency
15. Sudden Death in the Young: A Terrible Waste
16. Affairs of the Heart: An Exploration of the Symbolism of the Heart in Art
17. I Won't Have Blood! A Battle Between Belief and Duty?
18. Nice Work If You can Get It: Life as a Children's Heart Surgeon