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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
• SC Abdominal Aorta ... Flow Doppler #Anatomy ... POCUS #Cardiac #TTE ... #Echocardiogram ... Orientations #Atlas #Map
Parasternal Short Axis (PSAX) at the level of the Aortic Valve

Phased array transducer; parasternal short axis/indicator
Axis (PSAX) at the ... level of the Aortic ... heart strain (pulmonary ... Short #Axis #PSAX #echocardiogram ... POCUS #labeled #anatomy
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Management Principles

General Therapeutic Principles:
Reduce the congestive state 
 - Caution
Ejection Fraction: Management ... Principles: Reduce the ... pressure - Central aortic ... hypertension, pulmonary ... ineffective) #Management
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
polyangiitis), MPA ... involvement is the ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... with sparing of the ... differential #diagnosis #management
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
disorder occurring in the ... disease and in the ... defect (Type 1) or anatomic ... cirrhosis • Intra-pulmonary ... contrast-enhanced TTE
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
Transthoracic echocardiogram ... Diagnostic criteria: mPAP ... receptors, blocking the ... Mechanism: facilitates the ... Hypertension #diagnosis #management
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... risk (>5%): - Aortic ... Severe Aortic stenosis ... stress testing may ... medical and surgical management
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Cerebral > Splenic, pulmonary ... cultures • 2D Echo TTE ... • TTE nondiagnostic ... ↑ Suspicion -> TEE ... Endocarditis #diagnosis #management
Approach to Tracheostomy Emergencies - OnePager Summary
COMPONENTS OF A TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE:
 • Obturator - inserted into
inserted into the ... Surgical management ... #differential #management ... #pulmonary #criticalcare ... #airway #anatomy
Supraclavicular nodes
1.Low cervical, supraclavicular and sternal notch nodes
From the lower margin of the cricoid to the
superior border of aortic ... aortic arch to ... the left main pulmonary ... artery #Anatomy ... Thoracic #LymphNode #Map