Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

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

This session covers the ECG in acute pericarditis and highlights how it differs from acute myocardial infarction. It also covers the complications of acute pericarditis - pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade – and examines the associated ECG

This session describes the pathophysiology, presentations and management of cocaine-related chest pain.

This session will cover the causes of mitral stenosis. It will also look at the importance of obtaining a full history regarding previous therapies

This session provides an overview of the investigation of mitral stenosis and its subsequent management.

This session describes the underlying conditions predisposing to the development of atrial flutter and outlines how the cardiac re-entrant arrhythmia can lead to the typical 12 lead ECG, the underlying arrhythmia circuit.

This session will cover how to identify the diagnostic features of ventricular tachycardia from a 12-lead electrocardiogram reading.

This session addresses the incidental ECG finding of a Brugada pattern. It includes the identification of ECG abnormalities, the implications of the finding and how to manage the patient.

This session discusses the types of stents used to reduce re-stenosis and their success rates.

This session provides a brief overview of the different causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.