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Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Atrial Fibrillation ... thrombus • Digoxin ... TEE to exclude thrombus ... AFib #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram (A4C)

35yoF presents with acute onset atrial fibrillation.  POCUS shows dilated
Atrial Fibrillation ... Echocardiogram (A4C ... jet seen from LV ... AFib #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #A4C #clinical
Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation - CHA2DS2-VASc

I always tell my students, one of the first thing you
for Atrial Fibrillation ... fibrillation in ... clinic is to calculate ... AtrialFibrillation #AFib ... CHADS2VASC #Score #Management
Ventricular Fibrillation on POCUS - Apical 4 Chamber View

A 50-year-old woman with a history of cardiac
A 50-year-old woman ... with preserved atrial ... #VFib #Ventricular ... echocardiogram #cardiology #clinical ... #a4c #AV #Dissociation
Cardiac LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram (A4C)
48 year old woman in ICU for acute ischemic limb. PMHx
Cardiac LV Thrombus ... Echocardiogram (A4C ... ) 48 year old woman ... are not POCUS: serial ... #A4C #clinical
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
with or without LV ... thrombus, RV systolic ... Clinical • Under-recognized ... suggest prophylactic anticoagulation ... Serial TTE and close
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
dysfunction or LV ... Change in clinical ... Anticoagulation ... CARP, DECREASE V trials ... medical and surgical management