Cardiovascular Disease
- Identify patients at elevated risk for CVD and calculate their 10-year cardiovascular risk using the Framingham Risk Score.
- Propose a patient-centered initial management plan for primary prevention of CVD and which investigations should be used to do this.
- Describe an early post-ischemia/infarction management plan including lifestyle changes, medications, psychosocial support, cardiac rehabilitation, etc.
- Propose a surveillance and management plan for secondary prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with CVD.
Core Resources
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Ischemic Heart Disease Management Clinical Card.pdf
Khattab Y, Keegan DA. Ischemic Heart Disease Management. Canadian Family Medicine Clinical Card. 2015. Available at: https://sites.google.com/site/sharcfm/
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Acute-Coronary-Syndrome
Law D, Cherniak W. Acute Coronary Syndrome One-Page Primer. DFCM Open. 2013. Avaialble at: hyyps://dfcmopen.com. Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
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Cardiovascular Risk.pdf
Payne RA. Cardiovascular risk. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2012;74(3):396-410. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2125.2012.04219.x.
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Secondary Prevention of Coronary artery disease
‘Hall SL, Lorenc T. Secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. Am Fam Physician. 2010; 81(3):289-296
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Quality Standard Placemat for Heart Failure
Ontario Health. Quality Standard Placemat for Heart Failure. November 2021.
Supplemental Resources
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Acute Coronary Syndrome: Diagnostic Evaluation
Barstow C, Rice M, McDivitt J. Acute Coronary Syndrome: Diagnositc Evaluation. Am Fam Physician. 2017;95(3):170 -177.
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Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE) guideline for the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care: 2022 update
Jain R, J.A. Stone, G Aggarwal, et al. Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE) guideline for the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care: 2022 update. CMAJ, 194 (43) (2022), pp. E1460-E1480
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Approach to atrial fibrillation
Jain R, J.A. Stone, G Aggarwal, et al. Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE) guideline for the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care: 2022 update. CMAJ, 194 (43) (2022), pp. E1460-E1480