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Atrial Fibrillation Overview

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

1. Why?
Cardiac:
• Valvular heart disease
•
intolerance, chest pain ... Cardiac: • Valvular ... Decompensated HF • New ischemia ... #Fibrillation #Cardiology ... #Management #Algorithm
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Chest Pain - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Aortic Stenosis - Ischemic ... : - Vascular ... ChestPain #Noncardiac #Cardiology
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
Guidelines for Crises ... include chest pain ... Consider invasive arterial ... consultation with cardiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Libman Sacks) • Atrial ... Early embolic/ischemic ... insult due to vascular ... Endocarditis #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
intolerance, chest pain ... Cardiac: • Valvular ... Decompensated HF • New ischemia ... AFib #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
history of: a) Ischemic ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... - Peripheral vascular ... one post op Cardiology ... medical and surgical management
Causes of Hypotonic Infant (Floppy Newborn) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Central Nervous System - Decreased LOC, Axial
Causes of Hypotonic ... Decreased LOC, Axial ... • Hypoxic-Ischemic ... • Spinal Muscular ... #Causes #Peds #
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... or dilated) • Valvular ... teratogenic GDMT meds ... Serial TTE and close ... #cardiology #treatment