11 results
ISCHEMIA Trial - Management Algorithm for patients with Stable Angina

Stress Test -> ? +moderate or severe
Management Algorithm ... Angina Stress Test ... LMCA lesion -> Cardiac ... revascularization (PCI ... #Cardiology #EBM
Pleural effusion visualized as an anechoic fluid collection located cephalad to the arrows. #Clinical #EM #Radiology
#Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #Sagittal #PleuralEffusion ... #ALiEM
A lobar consolidation located cephalad to the diaphragm. The branching, hyperechoic air bronchograms define this consolidation.
#Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #Sagittal #Pneumonia ... #ALiEM
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
manifestation of cardiac ... Hypertension, LV ... • Myocardial ischemia ... • Underlying ischemic ... #differential #cardiology
DETROIT CARDIOGENIC SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM

INCLUSION CRITERIA
Acute Myocardial Infarction
 Ischemic Symptoms
 EKG and/or biomarker evidence of AMI
SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM ... Infarction  Ischemic ... Fick calculated cardiac ... Angiography & PCI ... Initiative #Management #Cardiology
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
history of: a) Ischemic ... algorithm to determine ... if stress test ... dysfunction or LV ... one post op Cardiology
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
our friends from Cardiology ... Cardiology cannot ... primary disturbance Cardiology ... similar where Cardiology ... #cardiology #echocardiogram
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
our friends from Cardiology ... Cardiology cannot ... primary disturbance Cardiology ... similar where Cardiology ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
/ hypoxemia -> focus ... or diagnostic tests ... perfusion - Cardiac ... Hypovolemia - LV ... failure - Low cardiac
Cardiac LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram Short-Axis View (PSAX)
48 year old woman in ICU for acute ischemic
Cardiac LV Thrombus ... ICU for acute ischemic ... then the next tests ... are not POCUS: ... PSAX #clinical #cardiology