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Dr Sarah Tedjasukmana
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New CVD risk calculator is out

The Framingham risk equation is out, and an increased number of risk factors, including socio economic status, are in

Expert/s: Dr Sarah Tedjasukmana
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Dr Diem Pham
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Aortic Stenosis – Are you missing it?

Ausculating the chest is critical to picking up this underdiagnosed condition

Expert/s: Dr Diem Pham
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Ann Kirkness
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Cardiac rehabilitation and its importance

Cardiac rehabilitation is a program that helps patients make healthy lifestyle changes

Expert/s: Ann Kirkness
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A/Prof Jurgen Passage
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Aortic stenosis – Key considerations for your practice

Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis carries a terrible prognosis - We need to listen to our patient's chest once a year to pick up aortic stenosis early

Expert/s: A/Prof Jurgen Passage
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Lynnette Hoffman
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Severe aortic stenosis outcomes as bad as cancer: here’s what to check for

50% of untreated patients with severe aortic stenosis will die within two years

Expert/s: Lynnette Hoffman
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Dr Alisha Dorrigan
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Reassure or refer? Investigating palpitations in general practice

Wearable devices aren’t yet standardised enough to be incorporated into general practice assessments, expert saysa

Expert/s: Dr Alisha Dorrigan
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Prof Andrew Sindone
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Flu vaccination and heart failure

Catching the flu significantly increases the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, hospitalisation for heart failure and increased CV morality

Expert/s: Prof Andrew Sindone
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Healthed
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What are you prescribing for atrial fibrillation?

Despite widespread uptake, DOACs are still underutilised and atrial fibrillation is still undertreated in Australia

Expert/s: Healthed
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Dr Linda Calabresi
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TAVI now an option for many more aortic stenosis patients

Untreated aortic stenosis is deadly, here’s what GPs need to know.

Expert/s: Dr Linda Calabresi
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Prof Andrew Sindone
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Aortic stenosis – How TAVI is revolutionising management

How health professionals must auscultate for murmurs in all patients over 65 years, and refer for an echo or to a cardiologist, How the symptoms of chest pain, syncope and dyspnoea appear late, and the prognosis is very poor with 50% mortality in two years, TAVI being a safe, effective, and highly cost-effective treatment for patients with aortic stenosis, and how we should be referring our patients earlier for consideration of this procedure and its current availability for only privately insured patients, unfortunately

Expert/s: Prof Andrew Sindone
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Dr Aajuli Shukla
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What are you prescribing for atrial fibrillation?

Despite the widespread uptake of DOACs, they are still underutilised and atrial fibrillation is still undertreated in Australia.

Expert/s: Dr Aajuli Shukla
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Ann Kirkness
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The importance of cardiac rehabilitation

How GPs are way too busy to address all the issues after a patient’s life changing cardiac event, and how we ought to recommend a patient’s enrolment to this currently under-utilised service and resource

Expert/s: Ann Kirkness

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