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Category Medmastery

CXR Essentials: Abnormal pacemaker lead position

Julian Dobranowski Medmastery video helps identify aberrantly placed cardiac pacer leads and complications such as pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, hydrothorax, hemothorax, hydromediastinum and cardiac tamponade

Julian Dobranowski
December 31, 2022

CXR Essentials: Abnormal CVC position

Julian Dobranowski Medmastery video helps identify incorrectly positioned central venous lines on chest x-ray and the potential complications of pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, hydrothorax, hemothorax and cardiac tamponade

Julian Dobranowski
December 23, 2022

CXR Essentials: Types of atelectasis

Julian Dobranowski video helps you classify and identify different types of atelectasis on Chest X-ray. Atelectasis defined as reduced inflation of all, or part, of the lung.

Julian Dobranowski
December 20, 2022

CXR Essentials: Pleural space

Julian Dobranowski and Medmastery video to help you search for and identify a pneumothorax on CXR.

Julian Dobranowski
December 18, 2022

CXR Essentials: The Failing Heart

Julian Dobranowsk Medmastery help identify the features of cardiac failure on the chest X-ray. Evaluation of the three stages of failure

Julian Dobranowski
December 16, 2022

Pacemaker Essentials: Troubleshooting with vectors

Pacemakers and the ECG: Learn to recognize failure to capture on an ECG or rhythm strip. Medmastery pacemeker essentials

Kristian Webb
December 1, 2022

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).

Kristian Webb
November 24, 2022

Pacemaker Essentials: Undersensing

Pacemaker essentials: How to recognize failure to sense, its causes and how it is resolved (increasing sensitivity or lead re-site).

Kristian Webb
November 21, 2022

Pacemaker Essentials: Failure to capture

Pacemaker essentials: Learn to recognize failure to capture, its causes, and how it is resolved (increasing output or lead resite).

Kristian Webb
November 17, 2022

Medmastery: bicarbonate loss and acid overload

Franz Wiesbauer explains how to differentiate between metabolic acidaemia caused by a loss of bicarbonate and that caused by the addition of acid.

Rainer Oberbauer
October 17, 2022

Medmastery: compensation

Franz Wiesbauer looks at acid-base compensation and some super-simple rules that will help you decide whether compensation is adequate or not.

Rainer Oberbauer
October 10, 2022

Medmastery: PPV and Specificity

Franz Wiesbauer looks at the impact of specificity and sensitivity on positive predictive value (and thus validity of a test) and why one has a bigger impact than the other.

Franz Wiesbauer
September 19, 2022