Heart HQ: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Heart HQ - Episode 9: Takotsubo and Perioperative Risk Assessment. Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy often occurs after severe emotional or physical stress
Category Cardiology
Claude Beck
Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894-1971) was an American Cardiac Surgeon. Described two cardiac compression triads (1935); first successful use of a defibrillator on a human (1947)
Heart HQ: Coronary Artery Anomalies
Heart HQ - Episode 8: Coronary Artery Anomalies and HRT. There are many different types of coronary artery anomalies such as an inter-arterial course and a coronary artery fistula
Network Five: ECMO
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 4 - ECMO: Review of DOSE VF, setting up an ECMO service, and D-dimer
Heart HQ: Aspirin and Aortic Valves
Heart HQ - Episode 7: Aspirin as Primary Prevention and Bicuspid Aortic Valves
Network Five: Cardiology
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 2 - Cardiology: role of coronary angio post cardiac arrest, Ticagrelor and Prasugrel
Atrial fibrillation/flutter in pre-excitation
In patients with AF and pre-excitation, the presence of an accessory pathway allows for rapid AV conduction, with a risk of degeneration into VT and VF
Atrioventricular Re-entry Tachycardia (AVRT)
Tachyarrhythmia that occurs in patients with accessory pathways, due to formation of a re-entry circuit between the AV node and accessory pathway
Heart HQ: GP Education
Heart HQ - Episode 6: GP Education Conference at the beautiful Novotel Twin Waters Resort on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday 23rd October.
Heart HQ: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Heart HQ - Episode 5: TAVI. We discuss Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant (TAVI). Traditionally, open heart surgery has been the main treatment option for aortic stenosis
Heart HQ: TAVI
Heart HQ - Episode $: TAVI. We discuss Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant (TAVI). Traditionally, open heart surgery has been the main treatment option for aortic stenosis
De Winter T Wave
First reported by de Winter in 2008, the de Winter ECG pattern is an anterior STEMI equivalent that presents without obvious ST segment elevation