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Readings

To successfully complete this education module, please access the additional readings before commencing.
You can download and print the readings from here, or at the start of each module.

Module One: Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Recommended readings

RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2^nd edition). 2012 Quick reference guides
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 1: PRIMARY PREVENTION OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2nd edition) 2012
Chapter 1 – Overview
Chapter 2 – Primordial and primary prevention

Other - please note access to these additional readings requires subscription to the relevant online journals/databases. Please email info@rhdaustralia.org.au for further information.

Parnaby, MG. and JR. Carapetis (2010). Rheumatic fever in Indigenous Australian children. Journal Paediatric and Child Health 46: 527-533 READ ONLINE
McDonald MI, Towers RJ, Andrews RM, Benger N, Currie BJ, Carapetis JR. Low rates of streptococcal pharyngitis and high rates of pyoderma in communities where rheumatic fever is hyperendemic. Clin Infect Dis. 2006; 43(6):683-9 READ ONLINE

Module Two: Diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever

Recommended readings

RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2^nd edition). 2012 Quick reference guides
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 2: DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2nd edition) 2012
Chapter 3 – Diagnosis and management of ARF

Other - please note access to these additional readings requires subscription to the relevant online journals/databases. Please email info@rhdaustralia.org.au for further information.

Carapetis, J. McDonald, M. & Wilson, N. (2005) acute rheumatic fever. The Lancet. 366: 155-168 READ ONLINE
Wilson, N. (2008). Echocardiography and subclinical carditis: guidelines that increase sensitivity for acute rheumatic fever. Cardiology in the Young 18(6): 565-568 READ ONLINE

Module Three: Management of acute rheumatic fever

Recommended readings

RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2^nd edition). 2012 Quick reference guides
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 3: MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 4: SECONDARY PREVENTION OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER

RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2nd edition) 2012
Chapter 3 – Diagnosis and management of ARF

Module Four: Management of rheumatic heart disease

Recommended readings

RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2^nd edition). 2012 Quick reference guides
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 5: MANAGEMENT OF RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 7: RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAMS

RHDAustralia (ARF/RHD writing group), National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (2nd edition) 2012
Chapter 4 – Secondary prevention and RHD control programs
Chapter 5 – Diagnosis and management of rheumatic heart disease

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