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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac ... -Chamber View (A4C ... View • PSAX: Mitral ... SSN: Color Flow Doppler ... Echocardiography #Cardiology
Sonographic Pulsus Paradoxus: Pulsed wave Doppler over mitral valve inflow demonstrating peak velocity change >25% with
Paradoxus: Pulsed wave Doppler ... over mitral valve ... Echocardiogram #Doppler ... #Pericardial #Effusion ... #a4c #cardiology
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusion with Tamponade on POCUS

In an unstable pt w/ chest trauma, subxiphoid view FIRST!

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Hemorrhagic Pericardial ... unstable pt w/ chest ... Effusion #Tamponade #Cardiac ... #POCUS #cardiology ... #clinical #s4c
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
circumferential pericardial ... , (B) a septal mitral ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... Echocardiogram #a4c ... pocus #clinical #cardiology
Causes of Acute Pericarditis:

Infectious;

Viral: 
Adenovirus 
Coxsackie virus A and B 
Echovirus 
Epstein-Barr virus 
Hepatitis 
Human immunodeficiency
Infectious; Viral ... injury Cardiac ... injury (e.g., cardiac ... sac) Chylopericardium ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Cardiac Tamponade on Subcostal 4 Chamber POCUS Echocardiogram

Which of the following would be expected in this
Cardiac Tamponade ... Resolution: >25% ... 25% decrease in mitral ... #S4C #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #clinical #Pericardial
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
exam Determine Cardiac ... one post op Cardiology ... change CV risk Chest ... postoperative cardiac ... stratification #diagnosis
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
- Differential Diagnosis ... heart failure • Mitral ... stenosis) • Severe mitral ... Gradual onset & resolution ... #Palpitations #Cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
exercise intolerance, chest ... Cardiac: • Valvular ... ventricular hypertrophy, pericardial ... Moderate or severe mitral ... Fibrillation #AFib #diagnosis