Skip to content
Latest:
  • Vitamin D supplementation for fracture prevention? A definitive verdict
  • Anticholinergic drugs and dementia: time for transparency in the face of uncertainty
  • CVD risk estimation: Should you get a coronary artery calcium score (CACS)?
  • Community Acquired Pneumonia in Children: RCT for dose & duration of Amoxycillin
  • Presidential Secretariat

Promoting high-quality patient centred care by evidence based practice and the use of cost effective information and communication technologies

  • Home
  • Family Medicine
    • History of Medicine
    • Introduction to Family Medicine / General Practice
      • Patient-Centred Care
    • Primary care’ (PC) and Primary Health Care’ (PHC)
    • Interim Guideline for Sri Lankan Primary care Physicians
    • Child with itchy rash
  • EBM
    • Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
      • EBM for busy clinicians 2021
      • New types of Study Designs
    • Overdiagnosis
      • SLMA Seminar on Overdiagnosis 2020 – watch the complete video
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines
      • Sri Lanka Clinical Practice Guideline Portal
  • Informatics
    • Introduction to Informatics
    • Electronic Health Records
      • SLOpenEMR
      • Digital health
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – AIM 2020 May
      • Deep Medicine
  • Education
    • Medical Education
    • Important concepts in medicaleducation
    • Post Covid Syndrome
  • Citizens මහජනතාව
    • ඔබේ වෛද්‍යවරයාට ප්‍රශ්න පහක්
    • බර අඩුකර ගැනීමට
    • Primary Care, Family Medicine and COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka
    • Coronavirus Information and resources for citizens
  • Arts Science
    • Tribute to my teacher Prof Carlo Fonseka: The first and the last lesson
    • Soul in Medicine
    • Being Mortal – a certainty in life that doctors tend to ignore
  • About

Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular EBM Primary Care SLIDER 

CVD risk estimation: Should you get a coronary artery calcium score (CACS)?

July 23, 2022July 23, 2022 admin 39 Views 0 Comments coronary artery calcium score (CACS), CVD risk

More than a decade doctors have been using CVD risk predication tools to lower cardiovascular diseases. The tools use traditional

Read more
Cardiovascular EBM guidelines Primary Care SLIDER 

Aspirin in primary prevention of CVD: The rapidly changing evidence

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 admin 1 Views 0 Comments Aspirin, cardiovascular disease, primary prevention, USPSTF

Aspirin in primary prevention of CVD: The rapidly changing evidence Aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid) used since 1853, is one of

Read more
Cardiovascular Cochrane EBM Primary Care 

Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID‐19

November 15, 2021July 23, 2022 admin 1 Views 0 Comments hypertension, walking

CDSR Authors’ conclusionsBased on the current very low‐ to low‐certainty evidence, we are uncertain about the efficacy and safety of

Read more
Cardiovascular EBM SLIDER 

Fasting and Nonfasting Lipid Levels Similarly Predict Cardiovascular Disease Risk

July 24, 2021July 25, 2021 admin 1 Views 0 Comments non-fasting cholesterol

Are fasting lipid levels more predictive of cardiovascular outcomes than nonfasting lipid levels? Guidelines recommend checking lipid levels in nonfasting

Read more
Cardiovascular MEdicine SLIDER 

Lipids and Lipoproteins in 2020 – Measuring apoB levels

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 admin 4 Views 0 Comments apoB, Lipids, lipoproteins

Lipids and Lipoproteins in 2020 – JAMA The 2019 European Society of Cardiology/European Atherosclerosis Society guidelines for the management of

Read more
Cardiovascular EBM 

Diagnosis and Management of Transient Ischemic Attack and Acute Ischemic Stroke

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 admin 317 Views 0 Comments ischaemic stroke, TIA

Importance Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the United States, affecting

Read more
Cardiovascular EBM Primary Care SLIDER 

SPRINT Trial: Lower BP below 120 systolic for more benefits?

June 5, 2021July 23, 2021 admin 3 Views 0 Comments Front Page Tag, SPRINT

Final Report of a Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control BACKGROUND In a previously reported randomized trial of standard

Read more
Cardiovascular EBM SLIDER 

Comparative Effectiveness of Aspirin Dosing in Cardiovascular Disease

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 admin 346 Views 0 Comments Aspirin, cardiovascular disease, dose

What does of Aspirin in Cardiovascular disease? Comparative Effectiveness of Aspirin Dosing in Cardiovascular Disease BACKGROUNDThe appropriate dose of aspirin

Read more
Cardiovascular EBM SLIDER 

Managing Stable IHD: Invasive vs conservative strategy?

May 22, 2021July 23, 2021 admin 8 Views 0 Comments Front Page Tag

Managing Stable Coronary Disease: will the initial strategy  The preferred contemporary approach to the management of ‘stable ischemic heart disease‘(SIHD)

Read more
Cardiovascular Clinical Medicine EBM guidelines SLIDER 

Acute coronary syndromes: NICE guidance 2021

April 20, 2021July 23, 2021 admin 4 Views 0 Comments Acute Coronary Syndrome, Front Page Tag, NICE guidelines

Acute coronary syndromes: summary of updated NICE guidance Acute coronary syndromes (ACS), comprising ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction

Read more
  • ← Previous

Guidelines for Primary Care

  • Aspirin in primary prevention of CVD: The rapidly changing evidence

    Aspirin in primary prevention of CVD: The rapidly changing evidence

    January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 admin 0 Comments
  • Information about Covid-19 Vaccine: Indications and Contraindications

    Information about Covid-19 Vaccine: Indications and Contraindications

    August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 admin 0 Comments
  • A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19 – July 2021

    A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19 – July 2021

    May 19, 2021August 18, 2021 admin 0 Comments
  • Acute coronary syndromes: NICE guidance 2021

    Acute coronary syndromes: NICE guidance 2021

    April 20, 2021July 23, 2021 admin 0 Comments
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines

    Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines

    October 17, 2020October 28, 2020 admin 0 Comments
  • COVID-19 Outbreak in Sri Lanka: Guidance for Sri Lankan General Practitioners

    COVID-19 Outbreak in Sri Lanka: Guidance for Sri Lankan General Practitioners

    March 16, 2020April 27, 2020 admin 0 Comments
RSS
Follow by Email
Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter
Tweet
YouTube
LinkedIn
Share

Contact

  • Kmendis | Negombo | Sri Lanka
  • Phone: (947) 76794423
  • Fax: (941) 12958337
  • Email: kmendis1956@gmail.com
  • Website: www.kmendis.org
KMendis.org Copyrights Reservered © 2022