Browsing: Cardiology

Cardiology , Neurology

Cardiac Complications from Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

4/15/2018 David Murphy, MD , Nicholas Johnson, MD

How does subarachnoid hemorrhage lead to cardiac arrest, complete heart block, or cardiomyopathy?

Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - Feb 2018

2/1/2018 Jason Stankiewicz, MD , Jayram Pai, MD , Jeremy Berberian, MD

ECG Challenge - Feb 2018 Case. An otherwise healthy 35-year-old male presents with 1 week of intermittent palpitations associated with substernal chest discomfort and dyspnea. What is your interpreta

Cardiology , ECG

Solve This Medical Mystery

1/31/2018 EM Resident

Solve This Medical Mystery OK, residents (and ambitious students): It’s time for a friendly competition. We’re giving away a prize package to the person who submits the most accurate, thorough interp

ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - Nov 2017

11/30/2017 Jeremy Berberian, MD , Jayram Pai, MD , Daniel O’Sullivan, MD

ECG Challenge - Nov 2017 Case. A 71-year-old male presents with exertional syncope. What do you see in the following ECGs (taken 4 minutes apart)? Answer Image 1. This ECG shows an atrial rate of ~78

Clinical , ECG Challenge , Cardiology

ECG Challenge - Oct 2017

10/5/2017 Shelby Catlett, MD , Jeremy Berberian, MD

ECG Challenge - Oct 2017 Case. An 81-year-old female with a history of hypertension presents with episodes of lightheadedness. What do you see in this 12-lead rhythm strip? Note: The 3 images are con

Cardiology , Clinical , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - Aug 2017

8/9/2017

ECG Challenge - Aug 2017 Case. A 97-year-old female with a past medical history of congestive heart failure with an ejection fraction of 20%, hypertension, and chronic left bundle branch block presen

ECG Challenge , Cardiology , Clinical

ECG Challenge - June 2017

6/6/2017 Maryam Arshad, MD

ECG Challenge - June 2017 Case. A 54-year-old woman presents with weakness, poor appetite, and weight loss for several days. She also reports profuse non-bloody diarrhea. Vital signs are unremarkable

Critical Care , Cardiology

Dual Defibrillation: The Achilles' Heel of Refractory V-Fib?

6/5/2017 Dhimitri Nikolla, DO

Dual Defibrillation: The Achilles' Heel of Refractory V-Fib? Proposed theories as to why DD may be efficacious include the delivery of more energy to overcome the defibrillation threshold as well as

Cardiology

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes

4/28/2017 Ryan Joseph, DO, DTM&H , Lee Wood, DO

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes The heart is an incredible organ. The average American's heart will beat nearly 2.5 billion times over the course of a lifetime.1 But eventual