Cardiology

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A rare, but can't-miss complication from pacemaker placement. Here's a #tweetorial (trying to do more of these 🤓) @RosenelliEM @EMBoardBombs @MedTweetorials #MedTwitter #FOAMed @AvrahamCooperMD @msiuba @EMEducation @MRamzyDO @EMinMiami @EMIMeducator @KimiChernoby

#endocation #endorules #endotips #endotwitter

🫀Molecular mechanisms involved in the different types of monogenic hypertension (thread)👇

Does Measuring Cardiac Output ❤️ with #POCUS seem confusing 😕? Let's Demystify that today 😀!

1⃣Measure LVOT Diameter
2⃣Measure LVOT VTI
3⃣Measure HR
4⃣Calculate SV and CO
5⃣FREE Pocket Guide PDF!

✅New Blog Post & PDF
🔗👉https://www.pocus101.com/CardiacOutput

#medtweetorial 👇(1/n)

Welcome to #TachyTuesday! You are admitting a patient from the ED who was found down and brought in by EMS. He's about 40, but no other info is known. Patient is still altered and not able to provide you with a ton of history. Here's his EKG.

Based off of Run the List Episode 24, here is a #tweetorial on💘Tachyarrhythmias💘

🎧Full episode: https://bit.ly/3b6svs0

Let's start with an EKG 👇 (@medicine_strong). For more practice, check out: https://bit.ly/35mxD7P

Thanks to @Gurleen_Kaur96 for this week's edition!

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Why do patients with advanced heart failure often develop the Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern?

To understand this phenomenon we'll have to explore circulatory flow time and the concept of loop gain.

And no this tracing isn't Torsades de Pointes 😉

#tweetorial #medtwitter

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How does calcium "stabilize the cardiac membrane" in hyperkalemia?

I learned early in my intern year to use calcium in the setting of severe hyperkalemia.

I never really learned how it works. The answer requires some history. And uncovers a forgotten alternative treatment.

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Why does obesity cause a "falsely low" B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients with heart failure?

I often hear this used to explain unexpectedly low BNP results, but I've never really understood why.

Let's explore in a #tweetorial.

#medtwitter #cardiotwitter