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2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A
2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA ... Guideline for the Management ... Task Force on Clinical ... #HeartFailure #Management ... #CHF #guideline
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
Myocarditis - CAD/ACS ... - Tamponade Pulmonary ... Costochondritis - Tietze syndrome ... • Alveoli: - CHF ... Diagnosis #Causes #Cardiology
Acute Coronary Syndrome - Diagnostic Likelihood Ratios for Symptoms and Physical Examination. Source: Fanaroff AC, Rymer
Source: Fanaroff AC ... This Patient With Chest ... : The Rational Clinical ... EBM #Diagnosis #Cardiology ... #ACS #AcuteCoronarySyndrome
B-Lines on Lung POCUS

PE is LEAST likely to show B lines. Juxtaposition of fluid droplets &
B-Lines on Lung ... alveolar interstitial syndrome ... & fibrosis #BLines ... #Lung #POCUS #clinical ... #Pulmonary #ultrasound
Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation - CHA2DS2-VASc

I always tell my students, one of the first thing you
fibrillation in clinic ... and ACC/AHA/HRS ... first-line for ... factor, while ACC ... CHADS2VASC #Score #Management
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
1 — Treat the lungs ... on ultrasound), ... NSAlDs, ACE-inhibitors ... #Checklist #CHF ... #Management
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
disease b) CHF ... dependent DM ACS ... event, follow ACC ... indication of AC ... • <12mo since ACS
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Fraction (HFrEF) Clinical ... : weight gain, lung ... Chest x-ray: signs ... Pharmacology: • ACE ... heartfailure #diagnosis #management
Heart Failure (HFrEF) Treatment - GDMT for stage C 

For patients with Heart Failure with REDUCED
benefit in second-line ... recommended by the ACC ... /ambcarerx #CHF ... #Pharmacology #Management ... Treatment #StageC #Cardiology
Monteggia Fracture 
Fracture of proximal ulnar shaft with radial head dislocation. Remember “MUGR” to recall where
radiocapitellar line ... ), compartment syndrome ... Splint: Posterior long ... repair MH/CCF ... Forearm #Ulnar #Radiology