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Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade ... Plan definitive management ... ultrasound to identify pericardial ... toward the largest pericardial ... #Management #Workup
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
Also has pericardial ... effusion/pericardial ... can be seen in tamponade ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... #clinical #cardiology
Large Pericardial Effusion on POCUS 

Good example of swinging heart in pre tamponade. Reason for electrical
swinging heart in pre tamponade ... EKG from same patient ... alternans #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #A4C #Clinical ... #Cardiology #Swinging
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... performed) • Clinical ... gallop • Abnormal ECG ... , echocardiogram ... #Management #Cardiology
Shock - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • Hypotension: SBP<90, SBP drop >40, MAP<65 (Normotension, HTN possible
Shock - Diagnosis ... and Management ... telemetry, 12-Lead EKG ... pericarditis, Pericardial ... Tamponade
Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram in Slow Motion (PLAX)
EchoProTip: Does this patient has a potentially hemodynamically compromising
on Echocardiogram ... Clinical diagnosis ... symptomatic large pericardial ... In my book this ... #echocardiogram
Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram

Next best step for this 25yo male (SBP 70)?
Resolution: pericardiocentesis
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... to definitive managemt ... Effusion #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #clinical #Pericardial ... #Cardiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
runner presents to clinic ... to workup right-heart ... circumferential pericardial ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... #cardiology
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
CM5 continuous ECG ... Obtain a 12-lead ECG ... consultation with cardiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis ... #Management #Workup
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Build clinical suspicion ... Pericarditis, Tamponade ... EKG Findings: ... #Myocarditis #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology