GP Vivas · cardiovascular-health
Hypertension — structured viva
Structured oral on hypertension: defending out-of-office confirmation and the white-coat/masked phenotypes, class choice from ALLHAT and network meta-analysis, intensive targets and their limits, resistant hypertension and PATHWAY-2, urgency versus emergency, and hypertension in pregnancy.
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The examiner opens: 'A colleague says every raised reading in the surgery needs treatment — why do you keep ordering home monitors before you prescribe?' The viva branches through measurement science, drug-class evidence, target-setting trials, resistant hypertension, acute presentations and pregnancy.
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You are the GP. A colleague argues that clinic readings are enough and home monitors just delay treatment. [2]
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