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HEART Score – A Tool For the ED The HEART score is an excellent tool that
HEART Score – A ... For the ED The HEART ... used in the ED setting ... Diagnosis #Management #Cardiology ... Stratification #ChestPain
Interpreting Right Heart Catheterizations

Always interpret a RHC based on the indication for getting the test. This
Interpreting Right Heart ... indication for getting ... the test. ... PulmPEEPs #Right #Heart ... #hypertension #cardiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
Pericarditis on Echocardiogram ... transthoracic echocardiogram ... to workup right-heart ... expiration not meeting ... pocus #clinical #cardiology
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
alterations in the setting ... The heart consumes ... only 5% of the resting ... workloads on the heart ... #echocardiogram
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Amyloidosis Diagnostic Testing ... Blood Tests: ... typing Cardiac Testing ... : • EKG • Echocardiogram ... • MRI of the heart
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
a) Ischemic heart ... determine if stress test ... one post op Cardiology ... surgery Stress Testing ... preoperative stress testing
Carcinoid Heart Disease on Echocardiogram

Carcinoid. See the immobile thick tricuspid leaflets
Patient with history of episodic wheezing,
Carcinoid Heart ... Disease on Echocardiogram ... episodic wheezing, getting ... #Carcinoid #Echocardiogram ... #clinical #cardiology
Intrapericardial Hematoma on POCUS Echocardiogram - S4C
Patient with worsening chest pain 1 week after discharge for
Hematoma on POCUS Echocardiogram ... area along left heart ... Underwent additional testing ... Hematoma #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #clinical #cardiology
Intrapericardial Hematoma on POCUS Echocardiogram - PLAX
Patient with worsening chest pain 1 week after discharge for
Hematoma on POCUS Echocardiogram ... area along left heart ... Underwent additional testing ... Hematoma #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #clinical #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
: • Valvular heart ... • Structural heart ... Fibrillation - Testing ... serum creatinine, test ... diagnosis #management #cardiology