Medical

National Stroke Week Special Feature. With AF early identification is the name of the game, so how do we do it, how often do we do it, and if we identify it, what should we GPs do next? Listen to this interview to find out.

National Stroke Week Special Feature. Australia is on track to get one stroke every four minutes by 2050! But it doesn’t need to be this way as the majority of strokes can actually be prevented. Listen to this interview where we discuss top tips for stroke prevention with the Stroke Foundation.

This audio file contains all 7 interviews on this edition.

• Track 1, Osteoporosis – why do we need to be alert?
• Track 2, Why do we need to be confident with menopause and MHT?
• Track 3, Recall and review the patient – Type 2 diabetes, glycaemic management doesn’t have to be complicated
• Track 4, Shared decision making and its impact on patient care
• Track 5, Schizophrenia – preventing patients from falling through the cracks
• Track 6, Preventing stroke in elderly (>65yrs) AF patients – What actions should a GP take?
• Track 7, National Stroke Week – Every step counts towards a healthy life

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Mental Health. Most mental health care is delivered through general practice, with GPs providing mental health care to 75% of those seeking such help. Listen to this interview with Prof. Malcolm Hopwood where we discuss the residual effects that some patients may experience after treatment for MDD, even when they show an improvement in depressive symptoms.

Mental Health. The choice of antipsychotic requires careful consideration to balance short-term need for effective control of schizophrenia-positive symptoms while ensuring minimal long-term side effects. Here we discuss options within the atypical antipsychotic range.

Immunisation Special Feature; This year has seen a number of changes in immunisations, so to help GPs stay up-to-date we discuss; the new flu vaccines in children, under 65s, 65 and overs, and in pregnancy. As well as pertussis vaccination in pregnancy, and meningococcal vaccinations.

Immunisation Special Feature; Invasive meningococcal disease, it’s a rare but potentially deadly infection. Serogroup B remains an important cause of disease in young children, contributing to 42% of cases in infants under 12 months in 2017. In this interview we discuss the importance of meningococcal B vaccination in infants.

Type 2 Diabetes. Case Studies can be an informative and useful part of every physician’s medical education. Here we present 3 typical patient case studies in type 2 diabetes, to provide practical tips and work through how we can help our patients achieve better glycaemic control.

Type 2 Diabetes. The future is looking somewhat bleak, at the moment we have 1.72 million people currently living with type 2 diabetes. The NDSS Registry has ~1.2 million of those, so there is a group of patients who potentially could be walking around with diabetic retinopathy that aren’t even registered. We discuss the role of GPs and ophthalmic health care professionals in this area.

Men’s Health Week (11-17th June). Testosterone deficiency is a common phenomenon whereby as men age their natural production of testosterone decreases, but sometimes testosterone can decrease due to medical conditions, so how do we diagnose and when should it be treated?