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The Holistic Heart Care Congress was held from 8-11 August 2010 at Sun City. Visit the congress website for all the details .
The reports tabled at the AGM are available. They include the reports from the president, standing committees and special interest groups. The minutes from the 2009 congress were also accepted at the AGM.
Read the reports by Dr Anthony Dalby on the followng meetings:
An amount of up to R15000 towards the travel and accommodation costs of a local or international congress will be offered annually by the Cape Western branch of the South African Heart Association in memory of one of South Africa’s outstanding cardiologists, Dr Louis Vogelpoel. Read more...
Visit the "Cardiology at the limits" website and access all the presentations in full mutlmedia! The login is "2019" and the case-sensitive password is "SAHeart".
: The Health Professionals Council has scrapped the Ethical Tariff, claiming to have “consulted extensively” before moving to drastically curtail professional incomes.
was launched by the American College of Cardiology at its annual meeting in March. It contains a wealth of information about all forms of heart disease and is easily accessible to patients and their families. Although the recommendations on the site are based on American Guidelines and may differ slightly from our own ESC-South African Guidelines, patients should find the website extremely helpful in understanding their heart disease and its treatment. Please encourage your patients to explore the website. The address is http://www.cardiosmart.org. Patients should be alerted to the fact that the quoted laboratory values are not in SI units.
SA Heart has put out a position statement on cardiac imaging with CT and MRI.
Applications are invited for the SA Heart Research and SA Heart Travel Scholarships.
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in South Africa.
These guidelines govern training in adult and paediatric cardiology. A list
of training institutions is also available.
SA Heart Association recommendations.
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