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Cardiac tamponade - a swinging heart of electrical alternans on Echocardiogram - PSAX

- Ivan Stankovic, MD,
Cardiac tamponade ... on Echocardiogram ... #Echocardiogram ... #PSAX #clinical ... #cardiology #pocus
Pericardial Tamponade
Beck's Triad 
1. Hypotension 
2. Jugular venous distension 
3. Muffled heart sounds 
Patient will be
paradoxus - ECG ... QRS, electrical alterans ... #Pericardial #Cardiac ... #Triad #Diagnosis ... #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 ... #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 ... gallop • Abnormal ECG ... , echocardiogram ... shock, sudden cardiac ... #Management #Cardiology
Myocarditis 

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

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram ... can be seen in tamponade ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... Septal bounce, etc ... #clinical #cardiology
Yamaguchi cardiomyopathy on Echocardiogram (A4C)

ECG has been stable for years, she only feels unwell when in
(A4C) ECG has ... been stable for ... Cardiac MR shows ... #hypertrophic #clinical ... #cardiology #pocus
Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram in Slow Motion (PLAX)
EchoProTip: Does this patient has a potentially hemodynamically compromising
Cardiac Tamponade ... on Echocardiogram ... Clinical diagnosis ... Hemodynamically stable ... #clinical #echocardiogram
Malignant Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram - A4C
CA patient with known pericardial effusion who
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... BP stable. ... #Cardiac #POCUS ... #clinical #Echocardiogram ... #A4C #cardiology
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
hemodynamics and cardiac ... ECG is vital while ... Cardiac cath if ... algorithm #management #cardiology ... #treatment #table