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Chest Pain / ACS Evaluation Algorithm
Algorithm that attempts to the use history taking (guided by LRs),
classification, and the HEART ... score to guide ... Ask about: - Changes ... (+LR 2.6) - Cardiac ... a HEART score:
HEART Score – A Tool For the ED The HEART score is an excellent tool that
HEART Score – A ... The HEART score ... the ED to help focus ... The HEART score ... www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events
REBEL Review 100: Canadian Syncope Risk Score 

Predisposition to Vasovagal Symptoms (-1)
History of Heart Disease (1)
Any
Canadian Syncope Risk ... Score Predisposition ... 1) History of Heart ... Syncope (-2) Cardiac ... Canadian #Syncope #Risk
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Diagnosis and Causes Clinical ... Echocardiography, Cardiac ... MRI, Cardiac Catheterization ... Endomyocardial: Carcinoid Heart ... differential #cardiology #algorithm
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
) • Valvular heart ... • Congenital heart ... • Hypertensive heart ... and timing with Cardio-OB ... follow-up with Cardio-OB
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
specific questions to ask ... exam Determine Cardiac ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Change in clinical ... postoperative cardiac
VExUS - Venous Excess Ultrasound Score 

The Venous Excess UltraSound (VExUS) grading system prototypes combining inferior
Excess Ultrasound Score ... reversed (toward the heart ... seen during the cardiac ... Congestion #Diagnosis #POCUS ... #Clinical #Grading
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
Risk Factors: • ... Anemia ✗ NOT a risk ... Cesarean delivery Clinical ... Key Point: High clinical ... experience recovery of cardiac
Canadian Syncope Risk Score
The risk tool consists of nine predictors, with the score for each predictor
Canadian Syncope Risk ... Score The risk ... predisposition - Heart ... duration >130 ms ... ED diagnosis of cardiac
Canadian Syncope Risk Score
The risk tool consists of nine predictors, with the score for each predictor
Canadian Syncope Risk ... Score The risk ... predisposition - Heart ... duration >130 ms ... ED diagnosis of cardiac