A 45 year old gentleman presents after 2 days of “indigestion” with a STEMI. He is admitted to ICU...
Approaches in specific situations and disease states
Have you ever been on a ward round and pretended to know what everyone is talking about, nodded intelligently,...
You are called to the ED to see a 78 year old man with new shortness of breath. For...
ECMO – CPR (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) is a means of artificially supporting a patient’s circulation who...
A 65 year old man in your ICU has had a myocardial infarction 7 days ago and undergoes an...
Intracardiac Masses or “U.E.O.” Not all masses seen in the cardiac chambers are going to be vegetations or thrombus....
Blunt Cardiac Injury (BCI) is a general term to describe all non penetrating injuries to the heart during trauma....
48 year old man with persistent Staph aureus bacteraemia…
A summary of total artificial heart – part man, part machine..
An overview of echocardiographic features for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis.