Should GPs auscultate every patient aged 65 or over for heart valve disease?
Dr Geoff Lester says auscultation takes only 'a couple of seconds'.
All patients aged 65 or older should undergo auscultation regardless of symptoms to screen for heart valve disease, say physicians linked with health charity Hearts4heart.
They also want Medicare’s heart health checks to mention cardiac auscultation in the item descriptor, they wrote in a Hearts4heart report last month.
