Potential Revisions to Hypertension Guidelines

GP's attitudes to hypertension guidelines.

Indian Hypertension Guidelines-ii

Co-existence of hypertension and diabetes is being increasingly recognised. 30-35% of hypertensives are detected to have diabetes. The prevalence of hypertension is 1.5 to 2 times greater in patients with diabetes mellitus compared 90 with matched non-diabetic individuals. In India, it is predicted that there is going to be a steep increase in the number of Type II diabetic 91 patients. Coexist...

Chinese Hypertension Guidelines.

According to the 4th National Nutrition and Health Survey in 2002, the prevalence of hypertension in China was 18.8%. Although there are no recent updated nationwide data, it is believed that the prevalence of hypertension has increased substantially in the past decade up to more than 200 million hypertensive patients in the populous country of China. To fight against the growing risk of hypert...

Revisions to the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Guidelines 2016.

In 2008 the Adult and Paediatric Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) and the Canadian Emergency Department Information System (CEDIS) presenting complaint list were updated based on user and instructor feedback. Since then the CTAS National Working Group (NWG) has revised the CTAS educational materials twice. Based on national feedback, several minor revisions were introduced. At the 2012 C...

Revisions to the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale paediatric guidelines (PaedCTAS).

The need for effective triage of the increasing number of patients presenting for emergency care was recognized in the early 1990s. Dr. Robert Beveridge led the development of a Canadian triage scale based on work done in Australia to create the Australasian National Triage Scale. The original Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) was an adult-centred classification that ...