Cardiovascular Curveball Archives • LITFL

Wide, Complex and Troublesome

A regular wide complex tachycardia. What is the role of adenosine in diagnosis and treatment? What are the other options?

A 35 year-old female is brought to the emergency department after collapsing in a shopping centre. McConnell sign

Patient presentes to ED with acute shortnewss of breath post Percutaneous Vertebroplasty (PVP) with cement embolus cardiovascualr curveball

Despite the therapeutic measures a 26 day-old boy with Tetralogy of Fallot has severe hypercyanotic spells and needs Blalock-Tausig shunt

A previously well 50 year old presents with sharp severe chest pain after a long haul flight from North America. DeBakey Dissection

Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Trouble-shooting QA cardiovascular curveball. Your patient has poor cardiac output after CABGx4 and starts IABP

49 year female old smoker with two weeks of increasing shortness of breath. She is treated for pneumonia on the ward but getting worse.

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?

Curveballs come from anywhere. A benign clinical history throws up an unusual CXR. Can you deal with this right sided aortic arch?

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...

A woman in the ICU has a problem. Her leg has turned blue. Can you handle this Phlegmasia case-based cardiovascular curveball?

This 86 year old male presented with shortness of breath. He developed a complication after insertion of a left chest drain.