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POCUS Pearls for Tamponade
- Pericardial Effusion
- Diastolic Right Ventricular Collapse
- Systolic Right Atrial Collapse
- Plethoric Inferior
POCUS Pearls for ... Effusion - Diastolic ... #POCUS #Diagnosis ... #Evaluation #Cardiology ... #Effusion
POCUS Pearls for Tamponade
- Pericardial Effusion
- Diastolic Right Ventricular Collapse
- Systolic Right Atrial Collapse
- Plethoric Inferior
POCUS Pearls for ... Tamponade - Pericardial ... Effusion - Diastolic ... #POCUS #Diagnosis ... #Evaluation #Cardiology
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
- Differential Diagnosis ... Pericarditis - Tamponade ... • Alveoli: - CHF ... • Pleura: - Effusion ... #Causes #Cardiology
Pleural effusion is bilateral in 70% of cases of CHF.
When unilateral, it is slightly more often
70% of cases of CHF ... There has to be at least ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Pleural ... #RadiologyAssistant
Pleural effusion is not always visible as a meniscus in the costophrenic angle. 
A subpulmonic effusion
Pleural effusion ... with signs of CHF ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Pleural ... SubpulmonicEffusion #RadiologyAssistant
Mediastinal Widening - Differential Diagnosis

 • Vascular: Aortic dissection, Aortic anourysm, Enlarged pulmonary arteries, Venous or
- Differential Diagnosis ... Venous or arterial great ... Pneumomediastinum, Pericardial effusion ... • CXR rotation ... #pulmonary #radiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
Pericarditis on POCUS ... has pericardial effusion ... can be seen in tamponade ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... Echocardiogram #clinical #cardiology
Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram

Next best step for this 25yo male (SBP 70)?
Resolution: pericardiocentesis
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Next best step ... hemopericardium & tamponade ... #Effusion #POCUS ... #Pericardial #Cardiology
Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS
Hypotension in trauma is not always due to hypovolemia. This was a great
Cardiac Tamponade ... This was a great ... in diagnosing cardiac ... management - MH/CCF ... ultrasound #trauma #cardiology
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Treat myocarditis ... Fulminant: - Acute HF ... Pericarditis, Tamponade ... #Myocarditis #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology