Tetraology of Fallot and BT shunts
Despite the therapeutic measures a 26 day-old boy with Tetralogy of Fallot has severe hypercyanotic spells and needs Blalock-Tausig shunt
Category Medical Specialty
DeBakey Dissection
A previously well 50 year old presents with sharp severe chest pain after a long haul flight from North America. DeBakey Dissection
Everything ECMO
In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to…
Manes Kartagener
Manes Kartagener (1897 - 1975) was an Austrian-Swiss physician. First to report the triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis in 1933 – Kartagener syndrome.
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting QA cardiovascular curveball. Your patient has poor cardiac output after CABGx4 and starts IABP
The Paradoxical Alternative
49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is treated for pneumonia on the ward but getting worse.
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump
IABP one of your patients had poor cardiac output after a CABGx4 and required the insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump, what do you do?
Why so blue?
A 40-year-old man presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath, chest pain and reported a pre-syncopal episode. But why so blue?
Cardiac Megacode
As leader of the MET team you were called to a 'Cardiac megacode' as a 57 year-old man has arrested on the ward post-operatively...
Sudden onset blue leg
A woman in the ICU has a problem. Her leg has turned blue. Can you handle this Phlegmasia case-based cardiovascular curveball?
Broken-hearted chest drain
This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.
Lisfranc fracture
Lisfranc fracture named after Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin and his amputation - removal of the forefoot at the tarsometatarsal joint complex (1815)