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vanPOCUS: Cardiac Views

Vancouver POCUS introduction to the four basic cardiac views - subxiphoid, parasternal long and short axis and apical 4 chamber by Dr Justin Ahn
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Ultrasound Case 094

A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look.
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Ultrasound Case 091

A 56 year old woman presents with chest pain and shortness of breath. Her ECG demonstrates widespread precordial ischaemic change.
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Shunts and Echocardiography

OVERVIEW can use bubble testing to ID calculate gradients if L->R shunt reverses due to pulmonary hypertension it is Eisenmenger syndrome Echo may not detect extra-cardiac shunts ASD patent foramen ovale (30% incidence in general population) ostium secundum ostium primum…