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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 ... Systemic Vascular ... Resistance #Diagnosis #Management ... #Hypotension #Approach
Cardiac Stress Testing
Exercise:
 • Everyone who can exercise should!
 • They must be able to raise
production to cause vascular ... Contraindications: - 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  Bradycardia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Bradycardia in theatre should not be treated as
Intraoperative Bradycardia ... OR severe hypotension ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Workup #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
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
, tachy- or bradycardia ... the patient is hypotensive ... consultation with cardiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Anaphylaxis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Unexplained hypotension
• Unexplained bronchospasm (wheeze may be absent
• Unexplained hypotension ... tachycardia or bradycardia ... • If hypotension ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
High Central Neuraxial Block - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Can occur with deliberate or accidental
and bradycardia ... • Bradycardia ... • Hypotension ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Local Anaesthetic Toxicity - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Signs of severe toxicity:
 • Sudden alteration in
collapse: sinus bradycardia ... therapies to treat hypotension ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Circulatory Embolus - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Causes: thrombus, fat, amniotic fluid, air/gas.
Signs: hypotension, tachycardia,
Signs: hypotension ... removal – consult vascular ... mainstay of initial management ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management