Browsing: Cardiology

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

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

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

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

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

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