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Approach to the ECG

Approach to the ECG

by Michael Wong | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured, Slider

Full PDF: ECG PDF
Point-of-Care Ultrasound diagnosis of Endocarditis

Point-of-Care Ultrasound diagnosis of Endocarditis

by Darren Wong, Michael Woo, Brandi Read | Feb 6, 2020 | Featured, Ultrasound

A healthy patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) where you are working one night. He complains of a four-day history of progressively worsening fatigue, constant and diffuse headache, neck stiffness, fever, chills and night sweats. There was no associated...
Electrical vs Chemical Cardioversion in ED patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2)

Electrical vs Chemical Cardioversion in ED patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2)

by Shahbaz Syed | Jan 31, 2020 | Cardiology, Featured, Infographics, Journal Club

RAFF2 Ian Stiell and colleagues are back at it with atrial fibrillation; The RAFF2 trial (Electrical versus Chemical cardioversion for Emergency Department patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2); A partial factorial randomized trial) was published in The Lancet...
Congenital Cardiac Disease in the ED

Congenital Cardiac Disease in the ED

by Shahbaz Syed | Aug 30, 2018 | Cardiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

Let’s start off with a case: 29 year old male, HR: 140, BP: 70/40, Temperature of 39.1. Sounds like straight forward, bread-and-butter emergency medicine doesn’t it? That is, until you look at the past medical history: Single Ventricle Hypoplastic RV Left...
Focus on POCUS: Heartbreaker. Cardiac Echo in the ED.

Focus on POCUS: Heartbreaker. Cardiac Echo in the ED.

by Robert Suttie, Brandon Ritcey | Dec 7, 2017 | Cardiology, Featured, Ultrasound

For other ultrasound focused cases please see our Ultrasound Archives.  A woman in her 60’s presents to the emergency department on her 7th post-operative day feeling nauseous, vomiting, weak and dizzy. She has just recently underwent a open left hemi-colectomy,...
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