News in brief: Single hs-cTnT for triage and exclusion of acute MI; Cardiologist fails in Federal election bid; Most chest pain ambulance calls are not MI

POSTS: Contrast dye shortage: Avoid CT scan requests ‘wherever feasible’, specialists urged

Medicines

CARDIO: Contrast dye shortage: Avoid CT scan requests ‘wherever feasible’, specialists urged

Interventional cardiology

Is the ‘platinum half-hour’ achievable for stroke treatment^®▲?

Vascular disease

Australian echo registry data: a study in quality improvement

Research

News in brief: No COVID-19 cardiac complications for athletes; BP threshold change will have huge implications; Gut microbiome link to resistant hypertension

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Cardiologists back legal review of infanticide life sentence

Specialist trainees ‘limiting family size’ to fit program rules

COVID-19

If the Minister for Health walked through the door now … What is the one thing cardiologists would ask him to do?

Public health

Risk-guided approach to up-titration improves quality of secondary CHD prevention

Risk factors

News in brief: Cardiologist honoured for rural service; Cardiac surgery patients risk DKA with SGLT2i therapy; Cardiovascular acronyms confuse patients

NZ Medical Association faces collapse due to plummeting membership

Rural vs city doctors: Who has had the most stressful pandemic?

Doctors health

Medicare-funded TAVI coming for low-risk patients from July

Interventional cardiology

Cardiology drugs in PBS ‘limbo’ thanks to bureaucratic delays

Medicines

News in brief: ECG model to improve detection of structural heart disease; Cardiac investigations surge after COVID-19 vaccination; Reducing unnecessary imaging is one step to decarbonisation

Corporate watchdog closes investigation into the RACP

Medical politics

Clinician estimates of frailty in heart failure too “vague and unreliable”

Heart failure