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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... (RV) Inflow View ... (RV) Outflow View ... Echocardiogram #Heart ... Echocardiography #Cardiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
to workup right-heart ... (D) a leftward ventricular ... Echocardiogram #a4c ... #pocus #clinical ... #cardiology
McConnell's Sign on POCUS Echocardiogram (A4C)

A4c view; RV enlargement & hypokinesis with apical sparing ("McConnell Sign"
McConnell's Sign on POCUS ... ) A4c view; RV ... /w acute right heart ... concerning for Pulmonary ... clinical #ultrasound #cardiology
Pathophysiology Of Constriction
Exaggerated Ventricular Interdependence:
 • Limited Cardiac Filling due to Fixed Volume → Septum Shifts
to Accommodate RV ... intrapericardial (heart ... - pericardial (pulmonary ... #constrictive #pericarditis ... pathophysiology #cardiology
Univentricular heart, Left Ventricular type l-loop

Ventriculoarterial connections are discordant 
Common atrioventricular valve 
Pulmonary artery banding
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, Left Ventricular ... atrioventricular valve Pulmonary ... Echocardiogram #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #A4c ... #Cardiology
Shock Types - Classification
State of cellular and tissue hypoxia due to: reduced oxygen delivery, increased oxygen
decompensated heart ... vascular → RV failure ... venous return/ventricular ... , constrictive pericarditis ... types #diagnosis #management
Shock Classification
Shock Definition: State of cellular and tissue hypoxia due to: reduced oxygen delivery, increased oxygen
decompensated heart ... vascular → RV failure ... venous return/ventricular ... , constrictive pericarditis ... Types #diagnosis #management
McConnell's Sign on POCUS Echocardiogram

2 patients w/ different diagnoses.  Both demonstrate an apical 4-chamber view
McConnell's Sign on POCUS ... from acute right heart ... strain related to pulmonary ... Echocardiogram #clinical #cardiology ... #a4c #labeled
In order to get good visualization of the RV, Intravenous Definity (brand name echo contrast material)
chambers of the heart ... described for Pulmonary ... see it in right ventricular ... #Clinical #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #Definity #A4C
Bullet Embolization in the Right Ventricle on POCUS Echocardiogram
22M s/p GSW to left mid-abdomen. Positive FAST
Right Ventricle on POCUS ... Dx: Right ventricular ... embolization to the right heart ... #clinical #cardiology ... #s4c #trauma