A track built around one error
The Adult Congenital track exists because of a single recurring mistake, and its cases are constructed to reproduce it. A patient in their thirties presents with breathlessness. The history mentions cardiac surgery in childhood, once, in passing. Most learners work it up as general cardiology and never return to that detail.
The reveal lands hard, and it lands once.
Why this matters more each year
Paediatric cardiac surgery succeeded, and the adult survivors now outnumber the paediatric congenital population. They present to general cardiologists who trained when these patients did not reach adulthood, and they are looked after correspondingly badly.
Module map
Lesion-specific modules first — tetralogy and pulmonary regurgitation, transposition after arterial or atrial switch, Fontan physiology and its attrition, coarctation and late hypertension, unrepaired shunts and Eisenmenger. Then the cross-cutting blocks: arrhythmia, failure in an abnormal circulation, endocarditis risk, pregnancy, non-cardiac surgery, contraception.
Who enrols
General cardiologists, obstetric and anaesthetic learners who take the pregnancy and surgery modules specifically, and trainees on every clinical track.
PDF, 313 pages, lifetime access, from CardiologyBooks.com.
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