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POCUS Echocardiography Windows: Parasternal Short Axis (PSAX) and Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX)

- Abhilash Koratala MD https://twitter.com/NephroP

#PSAX
POCUS Echocardiography ... and Parasternal Long ... Axis (PLAX) ... #Windows #Anatomy ... #Cardiology
Echocardiogram and POCUS Cardiology Windows and Anatomy
 • Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX)
 • Subcostal 4 Chamber
Cardiology Windows ... and Anatomy • ... Parasternal Long ... Axis (PLAX) • ... #Cardiology #Windows
Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX) View - Regional Wall Anatomy on POCUS Echocardiogram

Alberta Sono @UAlberta_Sono

#PLAX #Regional #Wall
Parasternal Long ... Axis (PLAX) View ... Regional Wall Anatomy ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... #clinical #cardiology
POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... View (PLAX) • ... Flow Doppler #Anatomy ... #POCUS #Cardiac ... Echocardiography #Cardiology
Degenerated Left Atrial Myxoma on Echocardiogram (PLAX)
A 68-year-old gentleman with progressive shortness of breath and cystic
Echocardiogram (PLAX ... Final diagnosis ... Echocardiogram #clinical #PLAX ... #clinical #cardiology ... #pocus
Apical 3-Chamber (A3C) View - Regional Wall Anatomy on POCUS Echocardiogram

The apical 3-chamber has essentially the
Regional Wall Anatomy ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... the parasternal long ... infero-lateral (As seen in PLAX ... #clinical #cardiology
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
- Differential Diagnosis ... • Restrictive Cardiomyopathy ... • Diffuse Lung ... • Chronic Lung ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Septal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HOCM)

52yo worsening exertional sx and murmur. EKG nonspecific, Serial trops (-) 
EM resident
Septal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ... EKG nonspecific, Serial ... #Hypertrophic #Cardiomyopathy ... echocardiogram #plax ... #cardiology #pocus
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
syndromes (e.g., long ... capture of the atria ... Differential Diagnosis ... arrhythmia • Atrial ... #differential #cardiology
Approach to ECGs - Tachy/Bradyarrhythmias
Tachyarrhythmias - HR > 100
Wide
  (1) VT - DANGER
  (2)
(3) SVTs - atrial ... AV block 1º - long ... block (lower AV cells ... bradyarrhythmia #ECG #EKG #diagnosis ... electrocardiogram #cardiology