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Acute Heart Failure Exacerbation - Diagnostic Likelihood Ratios
+LR > 3.5:
 • Overall judgement of ED physician
Exacerbation - Diagnostic ... JVD • S3 • AFib ... Examination #chf #cardiology ... #heartfailure #physicalexam ... #diagnosis
Atrial Fibrillation - Diagnosis, Causes, Presentations
Causes (PIRATES):
 - Pulmonary embolism 
 - Ischemia (cardiac) 
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Fibrillation - Diagnosis ... - Ischemia (cardiac ... withdrawal ("holiday heart ... #Fibrillation #AFib ... PIRATES #Emergency #Cardiology
The HEART Score for Chest Pain Patients in the ED

Calculate the HEART Score @ https://www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events

#Diagnosis #Management
The HEART Score ... Calculate the HEART ... www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Cardiology #HEARTScore
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... performed) • Clinical ... shock, sudden cardiac ... death Management ... #Management #Cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Cardiac: • Valvular ... heart disease ... • Structural heart ... #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology
HEART Score – A Tool For the ED The HEART score is an excellent tool that
HEART Score – A ... Major Adverse Cardiac ... www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Cardiology #HEART
Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation on JVP Examination

What information about the patient do we get from this #JVP
Cardiac rhythm? ... Underlying structural heart ... Lancisis #Sign #JVP #PhysicalExam ... #Clinical #Video ... #Cardiology
American College of Critical Care Medicine algorithm for time-sensitive, goal-directed stepwise management of hemodynamic support in
American College of Critical ... goals—restore and maintain heart ... except congenital heart ... lesions), and cardiac ... Shock #Algorithm #CriticalCare
Myocardial Injury Classification
Chronic myocardial injury: Chronic heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertension, CKD/ESRD
Acute nonischemic myocardial injury:
 - Primary
injury: Chronic heart ... cardiomyopathy, Acute heart ... illness: Critical ... Classification #diagnosis ... #cardiology #troponemia
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
- Differential Diagnosis ... Palpitations Diagnosis ... Nonarrhythmic Cardiac ... /Afib/WPW) • Loss ... #Palpitations #Cardiology