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Cardiac Event Monitoring Devices - Compared
Ambulatory ECG (Hotter):
 • Advantages: Continuous recording, records asx events, all
Cardiac Event Monitoring ... Disadvantages: Short ... Continuous long term ... detect various arrhythmias ... #management #holter
Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes
Entity - Prevalence / Incidence - Diagnosis - Arrhythmic Presentation - Management
 • Long
- Management ... • Progressive Cardiac ... Normal Heart • Short ... #Syndromes #clinical ... #cardiology #diagnosis
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Manage acute cardiac ... Cardiogenic shock, Arrythmias ... Pericarditis, Tamponade ... #Myocarditis #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS
Hypotension in trauma is not always due to hypovolemia. This was a great
Cardiac Tamponade ... benefits of POCUS in diagnosing ... cardiac tamponade ... for definitive management ... #clinical #ultrasound
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
exam Determine Cardiac ... CV disease - Arrhythmia ... Change in clinical ... medical and surgical management ... stratification #diagnosis
Intraoperative Cardiac Free Wall Rupture
Free wall rupture...yes we can save them
Following a syncope event, a 72-y
Following a syncope event ... brought to the ER ... were evacuated (tamponade ... cardiothoracic #surgery #clinical ... #video
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
shock and severe arrhythmias ... and timing with Cardio-OB ... recurrence remains even ... follow-up with Cardio-OB ... #management #cardiology
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
to be in ADHF starts ... hemodynamics and cardiac ... Cardiac cath if ... cause and perhaps even ... #algorithm #management
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
and 60 years • Even ... the most common clinical ... vessel aneurysms • Cardiac ... arrhythmia • Heart ... #management
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
Cardiogenic shock ⚠️ Arrhythmias ... Thromboembolic events ... Key Point: High clinical ... experience recovery of cardiac ... recognition and management