Accident & Emergency Care Feature Articles
Your heart is one of the most important muscles as it pumps oxygen carrying blood all around your body. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating. It's a medical ...
Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anywhere, including the workplace. While CPR can prolong life, defibrillation is the only way to actually restore a fatal heart rhythm back to normal. ...
Point-of-care testing leads to faster diagnoses and improved patient experience at Queen’s Hospital Emergency Department (ED).
Pain management groups are welcoming private health insurance amendment rules tabled in this session of
Parliament.
This year’s DonateLife Week theme – Everyone is a potential donor. What are you waiting for? - is critical because we need many more registered organ and tissue donors.
‘Today is #hellomynameis day, which recognises, above all, that healthcare is an interaction between two human beings’, says Dr Linc Thurecht, Acting Chief Executive of the Australian ...
The public 3 month opt-out period for My Health Record is open until 15th October 2018. How will your patients embrace or refusal of the system effect your practice?
Supplies of influenza vaccines are becoming short across Australian States and Territories, following unprecedented demand this year.
Immunisation through vaccines is one of the simplest and most effective ways to prevent infectious disease yet too many Australians are still missing out on routine vaccinations, ...
More Australians are being hospitalised for injuries, with falls and transport crashes remaining the leading cause of injuries, according to a new report by the Australian Institute ...
New data shows that almost half of all people diagnosed with HIV are in the late stage of infection, prompting NSW Health to urge anyone at risk to be regularly tested.
A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) presents new information about the use of private health insurance to fund patients’ admissions to public and ...
In 2015-16, there were 7.5 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments across Australia (excluding the Australian Capital Territory), or more than 20,000 presentations ...
Whether you run a hospital, medical practice or dental clinic, the normal flow of patients will occasionally be interrupted by a sudden and unexpected emergency.
In a world first, new Australian research has revealed that genetic profiling can help predict whether an individual will break a bone through osteoporosis.
South Australians can have greater confidence about how end-of-life care is delivered to them under a new SA Health framework announced recently.
One-third of people presenting to NSW emergency departments have underlying drug and alcohol problems, yet only a small number get appropriate treatment, UNSW research has found.
The AMA has joined forces with the Australian Academy of Science to promote and distribute the Academy’s revised and updated booklet, The Science of Immunisation: Questions and ...
New evidence shows that there is no budget emergency in health, and that the Federal Government cannot continue to justify the freeze on Medicare patient rebates, according to the ...
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