Cardiology

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Well over 500,000 people in Australia live with heart failure. Every day about 9 people die and 170 are hospitalised due to heart failure, according to the Heart Foundation, underscoring the need for effective prevention and management.

Expert/s: Dr Sarah Wood
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This mini-audit will focus on understanding whether or not older patients in your practice are having cardiac auscultation done at a frequency sufficient to detect valvular disease in its early stages, and to detect more advanced valvular disease that may not yet be suspected.

Upcoming Healthed Webcast

Practical Strategies for Behaviour Management in Dementia

Tuesday 7th July, 7pm - 9pm AEST

Speaker

Dr Chrys Pulle

Geriatrician; Principal Investigator, Internal Medicine and Dementia Research Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital

Dr Chrys Pulle provides practical and evidence-based recommendations on how best these behavioural and psychological symptoms can be assessed and managed.