It’s not just about the squeeze. You gotta think about the filling. Yes, today we’re talking about diastology (I didn’t make that word up) AKA diastolic heart failure AKA heart failure with preserved ejection fraction AKA…
The use of vasopressors and inotropes to treat hypotension is common in the emergency department. It is now standard to start off with norepinephrine as your 1st line agent to treat shock in the ED. But is norepi always that best choice?…
Cardiac tamponade is a condition in which there is life threatening compression of the heart as a result of external pressure from the presence of fluid, gas, pus, clots, or blood in the pericardial space.
A 43-year-old patient arrives to the ED complaining of palpitations. Vitals are HR 298, BP 107/74, SpO2 100% RA, RR 18. The patient is diaphoretic, uncomfortable appearing, and heart sounds are fast and irregular. You obtain an EKG which sh…
Your patient is stable but has wide complex tachycardia (WCT). Your attending wants to give adenosine but you are unsure. Isn’t there a chance this could lead to ventricular fibrillation? In what circumstances is it safe to diagnos…
59 y/o M presents to the cardiac room after cardiac arrest. EMS reports a downtime of 5 minutes with immediate bystander CPR. The initial rhythm was vifb that responded to two EMS shocks and CPR. The patient arrived with ROSC. Soon after th…
53 y/o M PMD ESRD on dialysis presents with mild chest pain, now resolved. His EKG is unremarkable and trop is mildly elevated. There are no signs of overt heart failure. You call his cardiologist who tells you he has a “chronic troponin le…
75 y/o M with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation presents to the ED not feeling well for several days. He has some diarrhea but has continued to take his medications. He is mildly hypotensive. While IV access is established, you…
51 y/o M with a hx of smoking and HTN presents with acute onset of chest pain…. Is this anteroseptal ischemia or posterior MI?
You are catching up on some charts in the resuscitation area of your ED when your triage nurse pushes in a 37 yo M with no PMHX, who presented to your ED complaining of sudden onset lightheadedness and L sided chest pain about 10 minutes PT…
A young patient comes into your RESUS area complaining of palpitations, and you get handed this EKG. What do you do?
@JoePinero As if there weren’t enough morphologies and subtleties in the EKG, here is another ekg finding that you should be aware of… de Winter T-waves 1-3 mm ST-depression upsloping at the J-point in the mid precordial leads l…
1. Which of the following is the earliest EKG finding in acute MI? A. hyperacute T waves B. ST elevation C. ST depression D. T wave inversion E. Q wave 2. Which of the followingis true regarding pediatric EKG analysis? (A) Left axis deviati…
Post by @Fteranmd Thinking outside ACLS: Summary slide for conference lecture -Pathophysiology of Cardiac Arrest- http://edecmo.org/intra-arrest-goal-directed-monitoring-beautiful-nutshell-felipe-teran-md/
Post by @FTeranmd Image from Jacob et al. Heart Rhythm. 2011 Jun;8(6):915-22 We’ve all had a patient who shows up at the ED with a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) that may be malfunctioning. The patient didn…
