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Know your Echo signs of Tamponade!

#Clinical #POCUS #Echocardiogram #Cardiac #Tamponade
Know your Echo signs ... #Clinical #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #Cardiac
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Endocarditis Summary ... dental procedure • Cardiac ... loss • Myalgias Cardiac ... : • New cardiac ... cultures • 2D Echo
Pericardial Tamponade in a Shock Patient

Watch how the heart collapses and struggles to beat in surrounding
This is why Echo ... EM_RESUS #Clinical #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #Cardiac
Candidemia Workup and Management - IDSA Guidelines
1) Antibiotics
 • Empiric: Echinocandins (e.g. micafungin) for most patients
Complications • Ocular ... week to assess ocular ... involvement • Cardiac ... clinical concern for endocarditis
Tricuspid Vegetations in Endocarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram (s4c)
There are times you do a bedside echo on
Vegetations in Endocarditis ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... you do a bedside echo ... factors for TV endocarditis ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
Endocarditis - Overview ... dental procedure • Cardiac ... loss, Myalgias Cardiac ... : • New cardiac ... cultures • 2D Echo
This massive burden of tricuspid valve vegetation was caught in a young patient with septic shock.
Echo ALL shock patients ... EM_RESUS #Clinical #POCUS ... Tricuspid #Vegetation #Endocarditis
Endocarditis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
What is it? Inflammation of endocardium, typically secondary to infection of
Endocarditis - Diagnosis ... lines, prosthetic/cardiac ... typical bacteria, ECHO ... Immunologic phenomena, ECHO ... Cx for atypical endocarditis
Ventricular Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram (S4C)
Can be missed on cardiac monitor - another reason to echo
Fibrillation on POCUS ... Can be missed on cardiac ... another reason to echo ... #Fibrillation #POCUS
24 yo M sent from clinic to ED for + blood cultures. POCUS shows aortic valve
POCUS shows aortic ... #Clinical #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #Cardiac ... Aorta #Vegetation #Endocarditis