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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... - Table of Cardiac ... : Aortic Valve ( ... : Mitral Valve ( ... #Cardiac #TTE #
Echocardiogram Windows - Nomenclature
Each view is described using three (3) components
1) Transducer Position or "Window"
., LAX, SAX, or4C ... ., Mitral valve ... #Nomenclature #POCUS ... #cardiology #views ... #TTE #orientations
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade ... features are shown ... tamponade recurs. ❿ Plan ... specialist referral. ⓫ Plan ... largest pericardial
Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram in Slow Motion (PLAX)
EchoProTip: Does this patient has a potentially hemodynamically compromising
Cardiac Tamponade ... RV when the mitral ... valve opens, like ... Clinical diagnosis ... symptomatic large pericardial
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
circumferential pericardial ... , (B) a septal mitral ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... Echocardiogram #a4c #pocus ... #clinical #cardiology
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Involves aortic and mitral ... cultures • 2D Echo TTE ... • TTE nondiagnostic ... ↑ ESR, CRP • EKG ... #management #cardiology
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
Echocardiogram Huge cardiac ... masses...initially diagnosed ... mass just beneath the ... aortic valve Anguished ... #pocus #plax
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
exam • 12-lead ECG ... heart failure • Mitral ... valve prolapse ... stenosis) • Severe mitral ... Mechanical prosthetic valve
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Cardiac: • Valvular ... ventricular hypertrophy, pericardial ... Moderate or severe mitral ... Mechanical heart valve ... Fibrillation #AFib #diagnosis
Neuroprotection following Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Outcome from cardiac arrest is determined by
results from poor vital ... Obtain 12-lead ECG ... and discuss with cardiology ... develop (Box B). ❾ Plan ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis