In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD interviews Adam Sigal, MD and Stephanie Costa, MD – the…
Tag: Cardiovascular
What’s Your Diagnosis? Managing Acute Cardiac Valvular Emergencies in the ED
Welcome to this month’s What’s Your Diagnosis Challenge! But before we begin, check to see if…
Conversation – High Sensitivity Troponin
In this episode of EMplify: Conversation, Sam Ashoo, MD and TR Eckler, MD discuss high sensitivity troponin…
Pericarditis
Why do we care? Approximately 5% of emergency department visits for chest pain in North America…
NSTEMI
Why Do We Care? In-hospital mortality rates are about the same for STEMI and NSTEMI, approximately…
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Calculator
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) is calculated as: 1/3 Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) + 2/3 Diastolic Blood…
STEMI ECG
“Acute myocardial infarction (MI) historically is defined as a clinical syndrome that meets a certain set…
Sodium Bicarbonate Drip
Reasons for needing a sodium bicarbonate (bicarb) drip are discussed in excellent posts by Pulm Crit and LITFL. One…
Push Dose Epinephrine
Mixing: Dose: Pharmacology Alpha and Beta (1/2) agonist. Increases blood pressure and heart rate. Further Reading…