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shrouded shock…

February 28, 2017 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

46 year old male is bought into your resuscitation bay by local ambulance following a three metre fall from a work platform onto a horizontal metal railing below.

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Filed Under: #FOAM, Cardiology, Critical care, ECG, ECHO, Evidence, Interesting, Trauma, Ultrasound Tagged With: BCI, blunt cardiac injury, cardiac contusion, chest trauma, ECG, ECHO, myocardial contusion, RBBB, shock, thoracic trauma, Trauma, troponin

an insidious intruder…

September 25, 2016 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

28 year old male presents to your tertiary emergency department with chest pain, exertional dyspnoea and left calf pain. [Read more…]

Filed Under: #FOAM, Acid-Base, Cardiology, ECHO, Interesting, Metabolic Tagged With: anticoagulation, cardiomyopathy, ECHO, echocardiography, embolisation, left ventricular thrombus, LV thrombus, mural thrombus, POCUS

a covert combination…

September 11, 2014 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

72 year old male presents to your Emergency Department with a 4-5 hour history of palpitations. He appears well and has no associated symptoms.

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Filed Under: #FOAM, Cardiology, ECG, Interesting Tagged With: AICD, atrial fibrillation, defibrillator, double tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia

going the wrong way…

July 5, 2014 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

56 year old male presents to ED with dyspnoea, cough and small-volume haemoptysis. [Read more…]

Filed Under: #FOAM, Cardiology, ECHO, Ultrasound Tagged With: acute mitral regurgitation, cardiogenic pulmonary oedema, cardiogenic shock, ECHO, mitral valve prolapse

the long way round…

June 17, 2014 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

a 52 year old male presents to your Emergency Department with more than 24 hours of typical sounding, retrosternal chest pain. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cardiology, ECG Tagged With: angiography, anterior STEMI, ECG, Inferior STEMI, wrap around LAD

faster than most…

May 1, 2014 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

a 34 year old man presents to ED with chest pain & palpitations. His symptoms came on suddenly whilst doing light exercises at the gym. [Read more…]

Filed Under: #FOAM, Cardiology, ECG Tagged With: broad complex tachycardia, ventricular flutter, ventricular tachycardia

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