CXR Essentials: The Failing Heart
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
Over the next few weeks, we will be posting videos from the Chest X-Ray Essentials Course. This video helps identify the features of cardiac failure on the chest X-ray. Evaluation of the three stages of failure including vascular redistribution; interstitial oedema and alveolar oedema
Further Reading
- The many faces of pneumonia
- The failing heart
- Pleural space – when the pleura is too black
- Types of atelectasis
- Abnormal central venous catheter positioning
- Abnormal ETT positioning
- Abnormal cardiac pacer leads positioning
- Course: Chest X-Ray Essentials
- Workshop: Chest X-Ray Essentials
Further reading
- Wiesbauer F. Medical Treatment of Heart Failure. Medmastery
Founding director of the Centre for Radiological Anatomy Skills Lab, which incorporates imaging technologies into undergraduate and postgraduate learning. Author of Discover Radiology: Chest X-Ray Interpretation – Radiology First Prize, 2014 British Medical Association book awards
Julian Dobranowski MD FRCPC
Professor of diagnostic imaging at McMaster University in Ontario, CanadaMedmastery
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