Who should attend

If you are in practice and feel you would like a deeper understanding of cardiac diagnosis and therapeutics. If you are wary of the diagnostic aids used in cardiology. If you are a new graduate or an old hand. If you would like to recognise some common cardiac arrhythmias just by auscultation. If you would like to grade cardiac murmurs accurately or if you would like to finally understand which therapy to use and when, then this is the course for you.

What the course will help the attendees to do

• Identify heart sounds, murmurs and gallop rhythms
• Classify heart murmurs according to their loudness
• Identify the point of murmur maximal intensity
• Identify common arrhythmias on auscultation
• Diagnose both acquired and congenital primary cardiac disease
• Understand the benefits of cardiac diagnostic aids
• Understand progressive cardiac therapeutics

Learning objectives

By the end of this course delegates should have a thorough understanding of:

• The benefits of careful cardiac auscultation
• The diagnosis of cardiac disease by case history signalment and physical examination
• Diagnosis using the diagnostic aids - ECG, radiography, echocardiography, BP tests and blood tests
• The ACEi v pimobendan debate