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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... View • Right Ventricular ... Aortic Valve (AV) Level ... #Cardiac #TTE # ... Echocardiogram #
Figure. An approach to the diagnostic use of echocardiography (echo). Rx indicates prescription; TEE, transesophageal
echocardiography; and
a patient with fever ... (IE). ... , or secondary ventricular ... Transesophageal #Echocardiogram ... #TTE #TEE #Algorithm
Parasternal Short Axis (PSAX) at the level of the Aortic Valve

Phased array transducer; parasternal short axis/indicator
Parasternal Short Axis (PSAX ... ) at the level of ... heart strain (pulmonary ... #echocardiogram ... clinical #cardiology #POCUS
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
Echocardiography (TTE ... w/ septic pulmonary ... • Persistent fever ... • Aggressive management ... criticalcare #diagnosis #management
RV Thrombus on POCUS Echocardiogram in a patient with Pulmonary Embolism

It's a little fuzzy but if
Echocardiogram ... a patient with Pulmonary ... little fuzzy but if ... axis you'll see the ... #cardiology #PLAX
Fine Ventricular Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram (PLAX)
Beautiful PLAX view - fine rapid ineffective movement of the
Fine Ventricular ... Echocardiogram ... Life threatening ... coreultrasound #Fine #Ventricular ... #Echocardiogram
What's the Dx?
• 29-year-old male 
• Transfer community hospital 
• Hypotension
• Renal failure
• Altered mental status.
young patient with fever ... #Clinical #POCUS ... #Echocardiogram ... #PLAX #Infective ... #Endocarditis #
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Cardiogenic Shock - Management ... Troponin, Lactate, Liver ... and/or digoxin level ... patient with right ventricular ... HeartFailure #Cardiology #Management
Suspected catheter-related bloodstream infection - Management Algorithm
 • Temperature 37.8 C   • Rigors
Algorithm • Temperature ... cultures from the ... catheter lumen and the ... metastatic infection (endocarditis ... #Algorithm #CRBSI
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
Hypertension Presence of pulmonary ... Transthoracic echocardiogram ... • Right ventricular ... hemodynamics Liver ... Hypertension #diagnosis #management