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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... - Table of Cardiac ... Long-Axis View (PLAX ... Echocardiogram #Heart ... Orientations #Atlas #Map
Right Heart Catheterization - Pulmonary Artery Pressures and Calculations
PULMONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE = (meanPAP-PCWP) / CO
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- Pulmonary Artery ... RESISTANCE = [(MAP ... CARDIAC POWER OUTPUT ... or pericardial ... much as 40% in cardiac
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade ... • Diagnostic features ... tamponade recurs. ❿ Plan ... specialist referral. ⓫ Plan ... toward the largest pericardial
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
exam • 12-lead ECG ... failure • Mitral valve ... Mechanical prosthetic valve ... Standing up straight after ... #Palpitations #Cardiology
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
• Prosthetic valve ... : • New cardiac ... occlusion that may ... ↑ ESR, CRP • EKG ... than 5 to 7 days after
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
manifestation of cardiac ... including: • Coronary artery ... of structural heart ... tachyarrhythmias High-risk features ... #differential #cardiology
Complex Pericardial Effusion with Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram - PLAX
Pt sent to ED c intradialytic hypotension.
with Tamponade on POCUS ... Echocardiogram - PLAX ... Dialysis stopped after ... K 5.9 without EKG ... #Effusion #Cardiac
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
• Prosthetic valve ... : • New cardiac ... occlusion that may ... ↑ ESR, CRP • EKG ... than 5 to 7 days after
Tropical Endomyocardial Fibrosis (EMF)
snrunken ventnoes
Hallmark chronic EMF features include:
 • Apical obliteration of the left and/or
overlying thrombus in cardiac ... play a role • ... • Restrictive heart ... seen on cardiac ... Fibrosis #EMF #cardiology
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Serositis: • Pleural/pericardial ... 5% of patients Cardiac ... /LAC: • Renal artery ... Cytopenias • Cardiac ... valve vegetations