Browsing: Cardiology

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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
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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
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Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - April 2017

4/12/2017
ECG Challenge - April 2017 Case. A middle-aged male with unknown medical history is brought to the emergency department after being found outside on the streets of New York City in February smelling
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Cardiology

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly

4/2/2017 Noah White, MD, FACEP , Gregory Wu, MD , Christopher Hanowitz, MD
Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly A 63-year-old male is brought in by EMS after having a witnessed cardiac arrest while at work. Bystander CPR was started immediatel
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Cardiology , Critical Care

Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure

4/2/2017 Mark Andreae, MD , Chad Meyers, MD
Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure A 50-year-old woman with a history of primary pulmonary hypertension with right ventricular dysfunction presents with one week of worsening abdominal pain. Sh
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Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - Feb 2017

2/2/2017 Ari Edelheit, MD
ECG Challenge - Feb 2017 Case: A 56-year-old female with a history of chronic kidney disease and hypertension presents with diffuse weakness and fatigue over the past 3 days. What are you seeing in t
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Ultrasound , Cardiology

Can't Miss Killer: The Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Diagnosing Acute Aortic Dissection

2/1/2017 Thompson Kehrl, MD, RDMS, FACEP , Lindsey Ball, MD
Can't Miss Killer: The Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Diagnosing Acute Aortic Dissection A 69-year-old female with a history of hypertension and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) presents to the e
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Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge

12/9/2016 Zachary S. Wilson, MD
ECG Challenge Case. A 79-year-old male with a medical history of “some heart problems” presents to the emergency department with 3 days of fatigue and shortness of breath. This ECG is obtained in tri
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Cardiology

Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumomediastinum

12/1/2016 John Broach, MD, MPH, FACEP , Douglas D. Campbell, MD
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumomediastinum A 22-year-old female arrives in your trauma bay in respiratory distress. She appears slightly anxious and is mildly tachypneic. Vital signs are as follows
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Cardiology

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Not Your Average Heart Attack

12/1/2016 William Patterson, MSII , Krystle Shafer, MD , Jennifer S. Jackson, MD
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Not Your Average Heart Attack  A 32-year-old female presents to the emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of severe chest pain. The pain started 3 h