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Medications Used in Congestive Heart Failure

In CHF, the heart is failing as a pump; cardiac output
a pump; cardiac ... CHF also causes ... designed to increase cardiac ... #Pharmacology #CHF ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Cardiac Event Monitoring Devices - Compared
Ambulatory ECG (Hotter):
 • Advantages: Continuous recording, records asx events, all
Cardiac Event Monitoring ... records asx events, all ... NUIM_Chiefs #Cardiac ... Monitoring #Devices #Comparison ... #cardiology #management
Chest Pain / ACS Evaluation Algorithm
Algorithm that attempts to the use history taking (guided by LRs),
Chest Pain / ACS ... to identifying ACS ... (+LR 2.6) - Cardiac ... - History - EKG ... diagnosis #Algorithm #cardiology
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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intolerance • Chest ... gallop • Abnormal ECG ... shock, sudden cardiac ... failure therapy as ... Diagnosis #Management #Cardiology
Cardiac Event Monitors
 • Holter Monitor - Records every heart beat for 24-48 hours
 • Loop/Event
Cardiac Event Monitors ... patient places on chest ... StanfordChiefs #Cardiac ... Monitors #heart #cardiology ... telemetry #devices #comparison
Bradycardia
1) First Steps: IV, O2, Monitors, ECG, Pads on patient, Crash Cart in room. Is patient
O2, Monitors, ECG ... Shock, SBP <90, AMS ... , SOB from CHF, ... Chest Pain • ECG ... differential #management #cardiology
Class I Antiarrhythmics and their Key Pharmacologic Properties

Class IA = Quinidine, Procainamide, Disopyramide ("Quarter PounDer")
Class IB
and their Key Pharmacologic ... fast-response cardiac ... tissue and serves as ... in wide QRS on EKG ... #Agents #Cardiology
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
In these cases comparison ... during a period of CHF ... Notice also the ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Cephalization
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
Intraoperative Cardiac ... symptoms may include chest ... CM5 continuous ECG ... as soon as possible ... consultation with cardiology
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Chest x-ray: signs ... Consider cardiac ... endomyocardial biopsy Pharmacology ... diagnosis #management #cardiology ... #pharmacology #