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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
Long-Axis View (PLAX ... Parasternal Short-Axis (PSAX ... View (A4C) • ... Long Axis • PSAX ... (SSN) View • PSAX
Pulmonary Embolism on Multiple POCUS Windows
Is your patient's hemodynamic deterioration a consequence of pulmonary embolism? Triangulate
- Dilated RV ... (PLAX) - Hyperdynamic ... Underfilled LV ... Interdependence (PSAX ... #clinical #POCUS
D-Sign in a lady with Massive PE - The LV should always be round like a
D-Sign in a lady ... Massive PE - The LV ... overwhelm the RV ... LV takes shape of ... Echocardiogram #PSAX
Ebstein's Anomaly on Echocardiogram

• Failure of the TV to "de-laminate" from the RV
• An abnormality of
& TV >> LV & MV ... • Ventricular ... • Anterior and Apical ... Myopathy" (sometimes LV ... Ebsteins #Anomaly #A4c
McConnell's Sign in RV Infarct
This patient arrived as a STEMI alert. Apical 4-chamber view showing a
Apical 4-chamber ... ); LV function preserved ... #clinical #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #A4C ... #cardiology #anatomy
LV Pseudoaneurysm

• False “pseudo” aneurysm: rupture w/ blood contained *outside* wall layers. (case below)

• True aneurysm:
LV Pseudoaneurysm ... HeartToProve #LV ... #Clinical #POCUS ... #CardiacMRI #PSAX ... #A4C #Echocardiogram
This 24M presented with acute onset CP/SOB, hypoxia, HR 150s. What's the diagnosis? Treatment options? Hint:
presented with acute ... transit seen in RA. dilated ... later with normal LV ... #Clinical #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #A4C
McConnell's Sign on POCUS Echocardiogram

2 patients w/ different diagnoses.  Both demonstrate an apical 4-chamber view
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... (hypo kinetic RV ... right heart strain related ... #clinical #cardiology ... #a4c #labeled
Huge mural thrombus occupying 1/3 the LV.
MI effecting [LAD territory]

In PLAX view, The unechoic line between
occupying 1/3 the LV ... territory] In PLAX ... DD the [apical HOCM ... echocardiogram #pocus ... #a4c
Right Heart Strain on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 4 Chamber

To differentiate acute from chronic right heart
Echocardiogram - Apical ... differentiate acute ... or bigger than LV ... Echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #a4c