ESC (Journals) vs OCTAID

About the app The ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Journals app from Oxford University Press enables you to read your favourite cardiology journals both online and offline on your iOS device (provided you have a relevant personal subscription, institutional subscription, or society membership). You can: • download issues when you’re online, so that you can read them whether you’re connected to the Internet or not • view the tables of contents for issues when you’re online, whether you have downloaded them yet or not • easily read issues from cover to cover by swiping through articles • download and read advance articles (published ahead of print) • download and read the PDF version of an article • use the in-app search feature • bookmark your favourite articles • add your own notes to articles • share articles by email or on social media • listen to the European Heart Journal podcast About the journals • European Heart Journal publishes the highest-quality material, both clinical and scientific, on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine. It includes articles related to research findings, technical evaluations, and reviews. • European Heart Journal Supplements publishes supplements to the European Heart Journal. Supplements published are often abstract books to key cardiology conferences or focus issues. • EP-Europace aims to provide an avenue of communication for top-quality original scientific work and reviews in the fields of arrhythmias, pacing, and cellular electrophysiology. • Cardiovascular Research is the international journal of the European Society of Cardiology publishing basic and translational research enhancing insight in cardiovascular disease mechanisms and the perspective for innovation. • European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging publishes research of the highest quality from all areas of cardiovascular imaging including echocardiography, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear, and invasive imaging. • European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy is an international, English language, peer-reviewed journal with a specific focus on clinical cardiovascular pharmacology. • European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes publishes high-quality, original, electronic health record and prognosis research from the scientific community, focusing on quality of care as it affects cardiovascular outcomes at hospital, regional, national, and international level. • European Heart Journal – Case Reports is an international, online-only, fully open access journal that publishes high-quality, educationally valuable case reports, images, and quality improvement projects in all aspects of cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. The journals are published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) by Oxford University Press. The ESC publishes fourteen journals, eight of which are published by Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

The OCT App is an educational tool which has been developed as a means to teach intra-coronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) with the goal of making it easy to understand for physicians all over the world. There is rising interest among interventional cardiologists to learn OCT given its ability to help with image analysis, determination of plaque characteristics, visualization of intra-coronary pathology and stent optimization. Mount Sinai Heart is a global leader within the field of interventional cardiology; the myriad of cases and pathology which are seen in The Mount Sinai Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory make it the perfect center to educate medical professionals within this field. The OCTAID app will teach the principles of intra-coronary imaging and the technique of how to perform and understand OCT pullback images. Users will also come away with an increased confidence in how to interpret various notable and commonly seen examples with labeled images and explanations. Finally, there is a link to an interactive portal where users can test their knowledge of the material with still images and pullback videos. This mobile application can be used on-the-go all over the world and it gives medical professionals globally exposure and access to cutting edge technology they may not be able to receive otherwise. As the field of intra-coronary imaging expands, so too will the use of optical coherence tomography. There is a need for a means to educate medical professionals on how to perform and interpret OCT and this app meets those needs for a global audience.