Helping practices improve their environment
Don Henry, ACF Executive Director, talks about the importance of projects such as the GreenClinic project (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - July 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
The GreenClinic project
Alison Fogarty and Grant Blashki talk about the GreenClinic project and what effect it had on the practices involved (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - July 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Assessing upper abdominal pain
Associate Professor Paul Pavli talks to AFP audio about the importance of a good history and examination in rationally selecting investigations to assist in assessing upper abdominal pain (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - July 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Upper abdominal pain from a surgical perspective
Mr Sean Mackay discusses with Dr Carolyn O'Shea surgical causes of upper abdominal pain and some of the investigations that can help to make the diagnosis of a surgical cause (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - July 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Neonatal care before transfer
Dr Kathryn Browning Carmo discusses the role of the GP in managing the neonate before transfer to a tertiary centre with Dr Kathryn O'Connor. Early phone contact with the local Neonatal Emergency Transport Service provides GPs with much needed support and allows initiation of retrieval. Priorities include keeping the infant warm, assessment and management of airway, breathing and circulation, basic investigations and fluid and antibiotic therapy as necessary. It is vital to prepare the family for the arrival of the retrieval team. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - June 30, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Managing acute arrythmias
Dr Jaycen Cruikshank discusses the assessment and management of ventricular tachycardia, supraventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation and bradycardia with Dr Kathryn O'Connor. Accurate ECG interpretation is vital and faxing an ECG to a cardiologist or tertiary emergency department can help. The unconscious patient will require rescuscitation as per the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines and the conscious patient requires IV access, oxygen, continuous cardiac monitoring and definitive treatment depending on the rythmn disturbance (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - June 30, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Does this child have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)?
Anne Fraser, clinical psychologist from the State child Development Centre in Western Australia discusses oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with Dr Jenni Parsons. The discussion centres around distinguishing ODD from normal preschool or adolescent behaviour, associations with other behavioural and psychological problems and management strategies (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - May 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Consultations with children
Dr Michael Harari discusses practical tips to gain a child's confidence in medical consultations with Dr Jenni Parsons. The judicious use of silliness, without acting the fool, can set a child at ease and facilitate assessment, history taking and examination (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - May 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
School refusal
Dr Jill Sewell discusses the underlying causes, assessment and management of school refusal with Dr Jenni Parsons. School refusal is a heterogeneous and multifactorial problem that may relate to separation anxiety, anxiety-depression, learning difficulties, bullying, family dysfunction or the child needing to 'protect' a parent in situations of family violence or parental mental health problems. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - May 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Chronic Rhinosinusitis (CRC)
Christopher Brown, consultant ENT surgeon, Melbourne Nasal and Sinus Clinic, discusses the management of chronic rhinosinusitis in adults with Dr Jenni Parsons. The discussion focuses on the practicalities of assessment, optimising medical management and surgical options for patients who have failed medical management (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - April 30, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
ENT problems in children
Professor Robert Berkowitz discusses the management of ear, nose and throat problems in children with Dr Jenni Parsons. The focus is on when to refer to an otolaryngologist for recurrent otitis media, adenotonsillar disease, suppurative complications of common infections and nasal injuries (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - April 30, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Treating hearing impairment
Professor Stephen O’Leary discusses technological advances in treatment of hearing impairment including digital technology in hearing aids, cochlear implantation and the bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) with Dr Carolyn O'Shea. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - April 30, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Threats to Australian Patient Safety (TAPS) study findings
Dr Meredith Makeham author of the series of articles in AFP on the Threats to Australian Patient Safety (TAPS) study discusses the TAPS study and some of the findings relating to errors, harm and avoidance of errors (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - March 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Maintaining an INR in the therapeutic range
is an important area of patient management and safety. Kate Hodge talks about a program and evaluation to assist in a rural region (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - March 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
Paediatric allergy tests and allergy prevention recommendations
Dr Marnie Robinson discusses paediatric allergy, including allergy tests, and the latest in allergy prevention recommendations (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - March 31, 2008 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts
