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Breath-Holding Spells Are More Complicated than Imagined
It never ceases to amaze me how nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Breath-holding spells are just the latest of the simple and common medical conditions that turn out to be much more complex than ever imagined.It all started during a recent shift in the pediatric emergency department with a toddler who presented after a breath-holding episode. He fell after losing his balance on a trampoline.It started as a classic pallid breath-holding spell that then manifested as crying out, stopping breathing, and rapidly losing consciousness. He then had a CNS anoxic event. The unconscious child clenched his fists and arched his b...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - November 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Riding the FOAM of ECG Waves
Dr Mike Cadogan Riding the FOAM of ECG Waves
FOAMed movement has facilitated access to myriad online educational resources and journals, previously locked behind a paywall. ecgwaves update for all LITFL readers who enjoy putting the F into FOAM...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology FOAM Website Review Araz Rawshani ECG course ecgwaves FOAMed Source Type: blogs
Aortic Regurgitation Eponymythology
Dr Gary Zhang Aortic Regurgitation Eponymythology
Chronological review of the eponyms of aortic regurgitation / insufficiency based on the 31 signs proposed by Ashrafian (2005) and Zacek (2018)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 19, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Gary Zhang Tags: Cardiology Eponym Eponymythology Aortic incompetence Aortic insufficiency Aortic regurgitation Aortic valve incompetence Fredrick T. Sherman Ludwig Traube popliteal-brachial gradient Rosenbach sign Shelley sign Sherman sign Traub Source Type: blogs
ECG Rule of Fours
Dr Gerard Fennessy ECG Rule of Fours
aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy One day, in a town not too far from here, the ICU registrar (you) is admitting a 60 year old male, who has just been brought into the emergency department with profound weakness, and needed to be intubated for respiratory failure. They were struggling in the ER, all resuscitation bays […]
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 3, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Gerard Fennessy Tags: Cardiology ECG Basics ECG interpretation rule of four Rule of Fours Source Type: blogs
ECG Case 117
Dr John Larkin ECG Case 117
ECG of a 14yr old female who presents following an episode of palpitations and associated dizziness. Interpret her ECG using the Arruda algorithm
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 22, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr John Larkin Tags: Cardiology Pediatrics TOP 100 ECG Arruda algorithm EKG Milstein algorithm Wolff-Parkinson-White WPW Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 094
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 094
A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look.
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 29, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: Cardiology TOP 100 Ultrasound echocardiography Pericardial effusion Post CABG Effusion spine sign Top 100 ultrasounds Source Type: blogs
History of the Electrocardiogram
Dr Mike Cadogan History of the Electrocardiogram
A brief (...and frequently updated) history of electrocardiography and the eponymous names behind the ECG/EKG...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 24, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology Eponymictionary Eponymythology Physiology ECG Einthoven triangle Fontaine leads Saitengalvanometer string galvanometer telecardiogram Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound Case 091
Dr James Rippey Ultrasound Case 091
A 56 year old woman presents with chest pain and shortness of breath. Her ECG demonstrates widespread precordial ischaemic change.
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 21, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr James Rippey Tags: Cardiology TOP 100 Ultrasound apical ballooning Cardiac ultrasound echocardiography fractional shortening octopus trap Tako-Tsubo Takotsubo Takotsubo cardiomyopathy TCM Source Type: blogs
Benjamin Sacks
(1896 - 1971) was an American physician. 1924 - Along with Emanuel Libman defined atypical verrucous valvular lesions in patients with SLE (Libman–Sacks endocarditis)
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 31, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Gary Zhang Tags: Cardiology Eponym Benjamin Sacks Libman-Sacks endocarditis Source Type: blogs
CXR Essentials: The Failing Heart
Medmastery video helps identify the features of cardiac failure on the chest X-ray. Evaluation of the three stages of failure including vascular redistribution; interstitial oedema and alveolar oedema
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sabrine Elkhodr Tags: Cardiology Medmastery Respiratory alveolar edema CXR Heart failure interstitial edema pulmonary oedema Source Type: blogs
Pacemaker Essentials: Troubleshooting with vectors
Pacemakers and the ECG: Learn to recognize failure to capture on an ECG or rhythm strip. Medmastery pacemeker essentials
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sabrine Elkhodr Tags: Cardiology Medmastery failure to capture pacemaker Source Type: blogs
Killer ECG Patterns
– 7 Deadly Diagnoses Not To Miss!! to lessen the load of load of 100 tasks/hour with interruptions every 6 minutes...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 25, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Ed Burns Tags: Cardiology ECG Diagnosis ARVC ARVD Brugada Syndrome Deadly Diagnoses Hyperkalaemia hyperkalemia Killer ECG Patterns RVOT Source Type: blogs
Pacemaker Essentials: Oversensing
Pacemaker essentials: Learn to recognize oversensing, its causes and how it is resolved (through decreasing sensitivity or the use of alternate algorithms).
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 24, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sabrine Elkhodr Tags: Cardiology Medmastery oversensing pacemaker Pacemaker Malfunction Source Type: blogs
Pacemaker Essentials: Undersensing
Pacemaker essentials: How to recognize failure to sense, its causes and how it is resolved (increasing sensitivity or lead re-site).
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 21, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology Medmastery Pacemaker Malfunction Undersensing Source Type: blogs
Ashman Phenomenon
Ashman phenomenon (1947) aberrant ventricular conduction, usually of RBBB morphology, which follows a short RR interval and preceeded by a relatively prolonged RR interval.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 18, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Cardiology Eponymictionary Ashman beat Ashman Phenomenon Richard Ashman Source Type: blogs
