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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
• Subcostal (SC ... -Chamber View (A4C ... Inferior Vena Cava (SC ... ) • SC Abdominal ... View • PSAX: Mitral
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusion with Tamponade on POCUS

In an unstable pt w/ chest trauma, subxiphoid view FIRST!

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Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusion ... #Tamponade #Cardiac ... #POCUS #cardiology ... #clinical #s4c ... #trauma
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset HFpEF.
you see on this SC ... has pericardial effusion ... Also had medial mitral ... Did have tap next ... #s4C #SeptalBounce
Hemopericardium on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal View

Valentine's day.  Shot through the heart--but not by Cupid.
Shot through the heart ... Echocardiogram #S4C ... #clinical #cardiology ... #Pericardial #Effusion ... #Trauma
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal 4 Chamber (S4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Subcostal 4 Chamber (S4C ... appearance of heart ... large pericardial effusion ... Echocardiogram #Cardiology ... #S4C
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
to workup right-heart ... circumferential pericardial effusion ... , (B) a septal mitral ... velocity of 9.5 cm/sec ... Echocardiogram #a4c
Pericardial Consistency Comparison on POCUS - Blood, Fat, Pus and Serous

Unclotted blood remains anechoic around clotted
move with the heart ... Purulent pceff may ... independently from cardiac ... Serous effusion ... Echocardiogram #S4C
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
manifestation of cardiac ... of structural heart ... Underlying ischemic heart ... arrhythmia • Atrial fibrillation ... #differential #cardiology
Rheumatic Heart Disease - Mitral Stenosis on Echocardiogram
(1) Thickened and fibrosed MV leaflets - rheumatic etiology
Rheumatic Heart ... Disease - Mitral ... (4) All 4 cardiac ... patient in atrial fibrillation ... #a4c #thrombus
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
Arrhythmias: • Atrial fibrillation ... Causes: • Cardiomyopathy ... failure • Mitral ... stenosis) • Severe mitral ... • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy