Need to top up your external CPD? Well ACADEME may have the answer.
Many tens of hours of CPD certified learning opportunities are available through live and online ACADEME activities and maintaining your CPD record couldn’t be easier.
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UK researchers suggest that blood pressure-lowering drugs can help prevent heart disease and stroke in any at-risk individuals, even if they do not have high blood pressure -- and nearly everybody is at some degree of risk for these conditions as they get older.
Dr. Malcolm R. Law and colleagues c ...
In this eJournal Club, we are joined by Mrs Jan Procter-King who is a primary care nurse working in Bradford. Mrs Procter-King is the Chair of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and also edits the British Journal for Primary Care Nursing which focus on Cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She ...
Managing a patient with heart failureBetty is a widow of two years who lives alone in her second floor flat. Over the past two years, her symptoms of breathlessness and fatigue have become progressively worse and she is now struggling to maintain her independence. She can just about make it out to ...
Welcome to the ACADEME Spring Newsletter, a regular update of news and events relevant to the ACADEME cardiovascular risk management initiative.
ACADEME is an initiative that aims to offer health care professionals in primary care comprehensive and up-to-date educational opportunities in managing ...
In this eJournal Club we are joined by Dr Graham Jackson who is the editor of the International Journal of Clinical Practice and has written widely on cardiological subjects. He’s had a long interest in sexual health, particularly erectile dysfunction and how that impacts on the vascular tree. He’s ...
Managing a Post-TIA Patient
When 68-year-old Kathleen attended her GP surgery for her routine BP check-up, she told the nurse that she had developed sudden weakness in her right arm that morning over breakfast. The weakness lasted for about half an hour but resolved slowly over the next hour. Howe ...
Under the strict eye of Radio 4’s Barbara Myers, tasked with keeping to the Oxford Debating Society rulebook, members of the ACADEME faculty debate the motion: “This country cannot afford to manage cardiovascular risk optimally”.Click here to watch the debate. ...
Welcome to the very first ACADEME eNewsletter, a regular update of news and events relevant to the ACADEME cardiovascular risk management initiative.
ACADEME is an initiative that aims to offer health care professionals in primary care comprehensive and up-to-date educational opportunities in mana ...