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
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Pacemaker Essentials: Troubleshooting with vectors
Pacemakers and the ECG: Learn to recognize failure to capture on an ECG or rhythm strip. Medmastery pacemeker essentials
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).
Pacemaker Essentials: Undersensing
Pacemaker essentials: How to recognize failure to sense, its causes and how it is resolved (increasing sensitivity or lead re-site).
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).
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.
Network Five: Burnout In Emergency Medicine
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 20 - Burnout reviewing papers on prevalence of burnout in ED physicians, causes and some strategies to combat it.
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.
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.
Pacemaker Essentials: The basics
Medmastery Pacemaker Essentials course. 3 main types of pacemaker (single-chamber, dual-chamber, and biventricular pacemakers).
Medmastery: Mortality rate
Franz Weisbauer explains how to calculate mortality rates for various subgroups, proportionate mortality, and why proportionate mortality is not a measure of risk.
Thyroid function tests in pregnancy
Medmastery: Thyroid Disease Masterclass. Gestational thyrotoxicosis, TSH, and the factors that lead to abnormal thyroid function tests.