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A good approach when dealing with hypotension at the bedside includes using the following systematic four
when dealing with hypotension ... examination and ultrasound ... Cardiac Performance ... Systemic Vascular ... Resistance #Diagnosis #Management
Cardiac Stress Testing
Exercise:
 • Everyone who can exercise should!
 • They must be able to raise
Cardiac Stress Testing ... production to cause vascular ... Bradycardia & hypotension ... Stress #Testing #cardiology ... #management #diagnosis
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Cardiogenic Shock - Management ... Checklist Evaluation ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology ... #Management
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
abnormalities (hypo- or hypertension ... the patient is hypotensive ... consultation with cardiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Cardiac Findings in Sarcoidosis
Most Commonly Affected Sites:
 - LV free wall (esp. basal posterior wall)
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Cardiac Findings ... muscle involvement Valvular ... dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension ... Abnormal a-wave #Cardiac ... #Sarcoidosis #Cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation Overview

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

1. Why?
Cardiac:
• Valvular heart disease
•
Cardiac: • Valvular ... #Fibrillation #Cardiology ... #Management #Algorithm
DETROIT CARDIOGENIC SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM

INCLUSION CRITERIA
Acute Myocardial Infarction
 Ischemic Symptoms
 EKG and/or biomarker evidence of AMI
Cardiogenic Shock  Hypotension ... visualization with use of ultrasound ... Fick calculated cardiac ... DCSI #Initiative #Management ... #Cardiology
LVOTO due to SAM on POCUS Echocardiogram

Septic patient after IV fluids and initiation of Levophed. Worsening
Worsening hypotension ... Management? ... Echocardiogram #ultrasound ... #Cardiology #PLAX
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
consider: o Cardiac ... Sepsis → 3-14 o Cardiac ... valvular problem ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
dental procedure • Cardiac ... loss • Myalgias Cardiac ... : • New cardiac ... Endocarditis #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology