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Category Cardiology
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Percutaneous Valve Replacement

Leon MB et al. Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation for aortic stenosis in patients who cannot undergo surgery. N Engl J Med. 2010 Oct 21;363(17):1597-607 [PMID 20961243] 30% of patients with AS can’t under go surgery c/o co-morbidity TAVI developed, first performed…

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Acute Aortic Dissection

Acute Aortic Dissection: the most common catastrophe of the aorta (3:100,000); 3 times more common than abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Venous Return and Shock

This page is under construction OVERVIEW “Obviously, except under momentary conditions the venous return and the cardiac output must be equal.” — Arthur Guyton STARLING’S LAW By raising or lowering an artificial venous reservoir, Starling showed that increased right atrial…

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Cardiorenal syndrome

This page is under construction OVERVIEW Cardiorenal syndromes (CRS) are disorders of the heart and kidneys whereby acute or long-term dysfunction in one organ may induce acute or long-term dysfunction of the other CRS is characterised by the triad of…

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Troponin in Critical Illness

Troponin abnormality is set at the 99th percentile in the healthy population, As the tests become more and more sensitive, the absolute cutoff value for “abnormal” has become lower and lower and the test has become less specific for myocardial infarction
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Electrical Storm

Electrical Storm; 3 or more sustained episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), or appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks during a 24-hour period
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Wide Complex Tachycardia

TYPES Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) Wide complex SVT Accelerated idioventricular rhythm Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA see separate document WIDE COMPLEX SVT see VT document for Brugada algorithm ACCELERATED IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM (AIVR) encountered in an inferior AMI often causes haemodynamic compromise…

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Ventricular Tachycardia

Ventricular Tachycardia = 3 or more VEB at a rate of > 130 beats/min. If > 30 seconds = sustained; can be monophoric or polymorphic
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Vascular Gas Embolism

Vascular gas embolism (VGE) is the entrainment of air (or exogenously delivered gas) from a communication with the environment into the venous or arterial vasculature, producing systemic effects.