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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... - Table of Cardiac ... #Cardiac #TTE # ... Echocardiogram # ... Heart #Windows #
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... Abnormal ECG, echocardiogram ... shock, sudden cardiac ... death Management ... #Management #Cardiology
Aortic Dissection Pearls
Aortic dissection is caused by a tear in the tunica intima, the innermost layer
Marfans, EDS ... disease • Cardiac ... opiates • Control heart ... #Dissection #diagnosis ... #management #vascular
Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)

Intra-aortic balloon counter-pulsation is a method of invasive hemodynamic support. A catheter is
Intra-Aortic Balloon ... sync with the cardiac ... Balloon #Pump #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology ... #criticalcare
HEART Score – A Tool For the ED The HEART score is an excellent tool that
Major Adverse Cardiac ... the ED to help focus ... www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Cardiology #HEART
Right heart dysfunction and failure in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: mechanisms and management 
Source:
and failure in heart ... mechanisms and management ... Ao, aorta; DTI, ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology ... #Echocardiogram
Shock Types - Classification
State of cellular and tissue hypoxia due to: reduced oxygen delivery, increased oxygen
decompensated heart ... Mechanical → severe aortic ... pneumothorax, cardiac ... Classification #types #diagnosis ... #management #criticalcare
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
dental procedure • Cardiac ... CA • Involves aortic ... : • New cardiac ... block, annular or aortic ... #management #cardiology
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
Huge cardiac ... masses...initially diagnosed ... just beneath the aortic ... #clinical #cardiology ... #pocus #plax
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
of the resting cardiac ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... #cardiology #echocardiogram ... #management #clinical ... #criticalcare #