Resources

Knowledge Saves

Whether you are a patient, healthcare professional, GP, Researcher, Academician or just over 40 years of age and looking for preventive heart care - we are curating some of the most relevant articles for you from across the world.
  • Researchers and Academics
  • Health Professionals
  • Women
  • Preventive Care
  • Patients
Researchers and Academics

Sex differences in optimal medical therapy following myocardial infarction according to left ventricular ejection fraction

Women and heart disease AIHW

Women and heart disease key stats and factsheet

Health Professionals

Absolute CVD risk calculator

The Absolute CVD risk calculator estimates the likelihood of having a heart attack or stroke in the next five years.

Acute Coronary Syndromes tools from the guidelines

Assessment protocols and algorithm for health care professionals

Heart failure clinical resources

Clinical resources for health care professionals to improve the management of patients with heart failure.

Heart failure guidelines: A concise summary for General Practitioners

Cardiac Rehabilitation & Heart Failure Management

HEART Online for health professionals

Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA) 

Practice Guidelines

Prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVDs)

Pocket guidelines for assessment and management of CVD risk

Heart Failure Concise summary for the GPs 2019

Heart Failure Toolkit Heart Foundation

Assessment protocol for suspected ACS using point-of-care assay 2016

Decision-making and timing considerations in reperfusion for STEMI 2016

Women

Sex differences in optimal medical therapy following myocardial infarction according to left ventricular ejection fraction

Women and heart disease AIHW

Women and heart disease: key stats and factsheet

Lethal stereotype’: half a million at-risk women miss out on heart meds

Lethal stereotype’: half a million at-risk women miss out on heart meds

Preventive Care

Heart Age Calculator

Try our Heart Age Calculator to understand what contributes to your risk of heart disease.

MIV 2018 Warning Signs

Patients

Coronary Angiogram Video

This video guides the patient, step by step, through a standard Angiogram /Angioplasty procedure

Exercise-Echocardiography Patient Information

Living well with heart failure – Information to help you feel better

Atrial Fibrillation info sheet

Heart Foundation Patient resource sheet



ABOUT US
Established over 10 years ago, VHLC is a unique private practice that provides an ethical care pathway that ensures continuity of care from community to tertiary hospital for all patients. We pride ourselves in providing state-of-the-art care in cardiac subspecialty consultation and outpatient testing in the South Eastern metropolitan Melbourne and Gippsland region. We practice evidence-based medicine.



ABOUT US
Established over 10 years ago, VHLC is a unique private practice that provides an ethical care pathway that ensures continuity of care from community to tertiary hospital for all patients. We pride ourselves in providing state-of-the-art care in cardiac subspecialty consultation and outpatient testing in the South Eastern metropolitan Melbourne and Gippsland region. We practice evidence-based medicine.



© Victorian Heart and Lung Clinic • All Rights Reserved