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Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade ... recurs. ❿ Plan ... definitive management ... specialist referral. ⓫ Plan ... #Management #Workup
Pericardial Tamponade
Beck's Triad 
1. Hypotension 
2. Jugular venous distension 
3. Muffled heart sounds 
Patient will be
Pericardial Tamponade ... - Treatment is pericardiocentesis ... Pericardial #Cardiac #Tamponade ... #Becks #Triad #Diagnosis
Type A Dissection on POCUS (PLAX view)

39 yo M w CP drops his BP in ED.
Dissection on POCUS (PLAX ... What's the Diagnosis ... hemopericardium and tamponade ... Echocardiogram #PLAX
“H’s & T’s“ - The reversible causes of Cardiac Arrest 
Hypovolemia, Hypoxia/Hypoxemia, Hydrogen Ion Excess (Acidosis),
Hyperkalemia, Hypothermia Tamponade ... #differential #diagnosis ... #arrest #management
Postpartum Hemorrhage - Differential Diagnosis, Examination and Management

Uterotonic Medications (after delivery of the placenta):
 • Oxytocin
- Differential Diagnosis ... Examination and Management ... USE Methods of Tamponade ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Examination #Management
Thoracic Trauma - Lethal 6 and Hidden 6 of Thoracic Trauma
The Lethal 6 of Thoracic Trauma:
Hemothorax • Cardiac Tamponade ... Thoracic #Trauma #diagnosis ... #management #injuries
Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram

Next best step for this 25yo male (SBP 70)?
Resolution: pericardiocentesis
Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade ... Resolution: pericardiocentesis ... to definitive managemt ... hemopericardium & tamponade ... Hemopericardium #Cardiac #Tamponade
LVOTO due to SAM on POCUS Echocardiogram

Septic patient after IV fluids and initiation of Levophed. Worsening
Diagnosis? ... Management? ... ultrasound #Cardiology #PLAX
Fluid Analysis 
A systematic approach to analysis of the fluid in conjunction with the clinical presentation
the differential diagnoses ... , & design a management ... plan.
Treatment of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)
Diagnosis of TTP:
 • Rare and severe, ADAMTS13 deficiency
 • Autoimmune
Purpura (TTP) Diagnosis ... plasma exchanges (PLEX ... soon as TTP is diagnosed ... combination with PLEX ... Thrombocytopenic #Purpura #management