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Supraventricular Tachycardia EKG

Here’s a great ECG case of a 50-year-old lady who presented with palpitations

Her heart
Here’s a great ECG ... case of a 50-year-old ... - Sam Ghali, M.D ... #Cardiology #EKG ... #Clinical
Intraoperative Anaphylaxis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
• Unexplained hypotension
• Unexplained bronchospasm (wheeze may be absent
arrest where other causes ... alternate vasopressor (e.g ... as patient is stable ... an appropriate critical ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
Positive Varus Stress Test in LCL Injury

Interesting knee injury in a young basketball player who landed
Positive Varus Stress ... Because we saw him ... injury, we are able ... his exam under anaesthesia ... Injury #Positive #Clinical
Intraoperative  Bradycardia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Bradycardia in theatre should not be treated as
Guidelines for Crises ... system including valves ... Consider known drug causes ... (eg. remifentanil ... Management #Workup #Cardiology
Cardiac Stress Testing
Exercise:
 • Everyone who can exercise should!
 • They must be able to raise
• They must be able ... 85% of predicted value ... production to cause ... arrythmias Diagnostics: EKG ... Stress #Testing #cardiology
Severity of Aortic Stenosis in Adults 
Current ACC/AHA guidelines recommend cut-off values for Doppler-echocardiographic measurements of
recommend cut-off values ... >50 mmHg (2) (Table ... common problem in clinical ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology ... AorticStenosis #Classification
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
Causes of Secondary ... with previously stable ... values. 3. ... risk factors (eg ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical
Hyperkalemia with Peaked T waves on ECG

These are the classic peaked T-waves of Hyperkalemia. Notice how
Peaked T waves on ECG ... Be able to recognize ... - Sam Ghali, M.D ... #Hyperkalemia #ECG ... #Clinical #Cardiology
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
of lactate as a clinical ... to bolus these values ... a multitude of clinical ... the appropriate clinical ... #typea #typeb #classification
Imaging Modalities for Renal Calculus

AXR. KUB
 - Good far calcium-containing stones useful when limited radiation dose
is desirable, e.g ... obstruction - Able ... identify non-calculus causes ... MRI - Limited value ... for non-calculus causes