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This session is designed for General Practitioners, Practice Nurses and other health professionals. Asthma WA invites you to our next health professional education webinar on ‘Interpreting Spirometry’. This webinar will include: * Review patient details and indication for spirometry * Assess quality of spirometry (acceptability and repeatability) * Assess bronchodilator responsiveness, Lower Limit of Normal (LLN), classify severity of obstruction, identify abnormal ventilatory patterns of FVLs - obstructive, restrictive, mixed obstructive and restrictive, upper and central airway obstruction, submaximal patient effort There will be opportunities to ask questions at the conclusion of the event.​ Speakers *Charlene Butler Senior Respiratory Scientist,...

The Goldfields Health Professionals Network would like to invite you to attend the following networking event. Reconnect with your fellow Kalgoorlie Health Professionals over a casual evening on the Palace Hotel Balcony Friday 23 September, 2022 6.00pm - 8:00pm Palace Hotel Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie. Food and drinks provided GOHPN Lets reconnect event Sept 23 flyer_F1 Please register your attendance here

This session is designed for General Practitioners, Practice Nurses and other health professionals. You are invited to register to attend a free webinar on 'Spirometry in Practice: a practical demonstration' presented by Charlene Butler, Senior Respiratory Scientist and Max Jenkins-Cooney, Respiratory Health Educator, Asthma WA. This webinar will cover: • Calibration verification with a calibrated 3 L syringe, • Measurement of height and weight, inputting patient details into spirometer, • Explaining and demonstrating forced manoeuvre, • Coaching patient to obtain quality results, • Assessing acceptability and reproducibility between tests, • Bronchodilator administration, • Technician comments, • Infection control Date: Wednesday...

WA’s revised Advance Health Directive and refreshed advance care planning resources are now available. The resources aim to empower people to make and document choices about their future health and personal care that reflect their values, beliefs and preferences. Overview The WA Department of Health’s End-of-Life Care Program (EOLCP) undertook broad sector consultation on the development of the new AHD and resources before they were launched by the Minister for Health, the Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson, on 4 August 2022. PaSCE with the support of the WA Department of Health EOLCP are delivering 5 brief & accessible webinars. These sessions will...

Volatile Substance Use: Information, Issues and Responses An overview of VSU • Substances/methods used • Prevalence/patterns of use • Long and short term effects • Signs of intoxication, overdose and withdrawal • VSU-related harms/risks • Intoxication management • VSU-related legislation Preventing and managing VSU • Best practice approaches • Strategies to address VSU • The VSU Incident Reporting and Response System • Supporting resources Please RSVP by Friday 14th of October For registration, please complete the below form VSU Training Flyer 25.10.2022  

Overview Mammographic breast density can be a challenge for general practitioners (GPs) and their patients. High mammographic breast density lowers the sensitivity of breast cancer screening; thereby increasing the risk of an interval cancer between screening episodes, and moderately increases breast cancer risk. Breast Screen WA is the only Australian state screening program to notify women and their GP when a mammogram shows marked increased breast density (and have been doing so for over 10 years). Women are advised in writing to consult their GP to discuss the significance of their breast density, to have a clinical examination and receive...