Coronary Angiography Essentials
Cardiology
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
Description
Coronary angiography is one of the key diagnostic procedures in cardiology. If you work in internal medicine, you’ve probably taken care of many patients with coronary artery disease who’ve had percutaneous coronary interventions, stents, or bypass procedures. This course teaches how to do a basic assessment of the coronary angiogram so you can take the best possible care of these patients.
Course Details
18 Lessons
5 Quizzes
3 CME
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Course Highlights
This video helps you to differentiate coronary arteries on the angiogram, recognise the views being used, and work out the severity of a stenosis.
Today’s video is a case-demonstration of the acute coronary no-reflow phenomenon and a discussion about the importance of coronary microcirculation.
Image intensifier basics and nomenclature
This short video will get you up to speed on image intensifier basics and how to acquire optimum images of each coronary artery and stenosis.