Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session explains the European Society of Cardiology guidelines on the investigation and management of syncope.

A description of abnormal movements that can occur during syncope.

This session will recap the essentials of ECG interpretation, focusing on conduction defects and heart block.

This session addresses the causes of swollen, painful limbs, with a particular focus on deep vein thrombosis. The assessment, investigations and management of deep vein thrombosis will be covered.

This session reviews Duke criteria and exceptions.

This session looks at the causes of chest pain in pregnant women. It covers how to differentiate and investigate the pain as well as how to treat the causes, concentrating predominantly on thromboembolism, ischaemic heart disease and dissection.

This session discusses why cardiovascular examination findings in pregnancy are different from those found in the non-pregnant state.

Valvular heart disease may be poorly tolerated in pregnancy; its recognition, assessment and management is detailed in this session.

This session provides an overview of ischaemic electrocardiograms (ECGs) in acute medicine. It is not intended to teach how to interpret ECGs, but to understand the underlying coronary anatomy relative to their interpretation.

This session describes the different presentations of patients with ischaemic heart disease.