Tag echocardiography
Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Ultrasound Case 111

A 45 year old woman with chronic alcoholic liver disease presents to the ED with exertional dyspnoea and is noted to have a SpO2 of 90% at rest despite having a normal chest examination and CXR.

POCUS - Basic Echo (FELS)

POCUS Made Easy: Basic Echo

Focussed ECHO in Life support (FELS) is used to define cardiac pathologies such as cardiogenic shock, pericardial tamponade, signs of submassive/massive PE or hypovolaemia

POCUS - Clue Protocol

POCUS Made Easy: CLUE Protocol

The Cardiopulmonary Limited Ultrasound Examination (CLUE) is a rapid shortened basic echo and lung exam combination to assess for cardiac and lung pathology.

Medmastery-Echocardiography-Essentials

Echo: Pericardial effusion

Helen Rimington explores the Echocardiography Essentials course with a video demonstrating rapid bedside assessment and diagnosis of pericardial effusion.

Medmastery-Echocardiography-Essentials

Echo: Mitral regurgitation

Helen Rimington Medmastery course with assessment of mitral regurgitation and cardiac decompensation following rupture of a cord in mitral valve prolapse

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

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.

Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Ultrasound Case 091

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

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

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…