[BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society Irish Cardiac Society Annual Scientific Meeting & AGM, Thursday October 5th – Saturday October 7th 2017, Millennium Forum, Derry∼Londonderry, Northern Ireland - ()] Brian Maurer Young Investigator Award - 56 The inferior vena cava – a reproducible and clinically useful tool in the monitoring and treatment of heart failure which deserves greater clinical prominence