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Aged Care in the COVID era: Standing at the ready
The residential aged care sector in WA has had the grace of time to prepare for an outbreak of COVID-19. Brightwater’s Jennifer Lawrence details some of the plans. Read More...
Palliative Dementia
Leading in-home health and aged care provider Silver Chain has launched a unique palliative care service to make the end stage of life for West Australians with dementia or a memory impairment easier. Read More...
Clinical utility of outpatient troponin
Cardiac troponin I and T are well known as biomarkers in the assessment of myocardial injury. An appreciation and understanding the pathophysiology of troponin and the timing of troponin testing is fundamental in the clinical utility of these biomarkers, as troponin and its kinetics are central to the universal definition of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Read More...
In the news: November 2020
In the news November 2020: Vale Professor Michael Quinlan; Race is on; Subiaco thinks big. Read More...
In-brief: November 2020
People in Western Australia making health care headlines. Read More...
Wine Review: Chateau Tanunda
Chateau Tanunda has produced wines for 130 years and has survived by changing with the times but keeping the traditions of the Barossa intact. Read More...
Infective exacerbations of COPD
What is an exacerbation? The GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) report, updated in 2019, defines an exacerbation as “an acute event characterized by a worsening of the patient's respiratory symptoms that is beyond normal day-to-day variations and leads to a change in medication.” Read More...