Cardiovascular Intensive Care

 Mechanical haemodynamic support strategies - rationale

Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, specifically SAM

IABP: indications, effects, complications, waveform interpretation

VV ECMO: patient selection, advantages/disadvantages, evidence

Haemodynamic monitoring: PiCCO, LiDCO or FloTrac

Critically evaluate automated chest compression devices 

Atrial fibrillation: risk factors and management options

ECG interpretation - polymorphic VT

ECG interpretation - trifascicular block

ECG interpretation - ECG in PE

ECG interpretation - long QT

ECG interpretation - complete heart block

Care for the patient with aortic dissection - Type B

VT storm: management of the refractory VT

Prognostication after cardiac arrest

Care of the patient recovering from TAVR: the complications

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Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

LV outflow tract obstruction - specifically, SAM

Cardiogenic shock: complications of angiography

Diastolic heart failure

Transthoracic echo: focused bedside TTE vs. formal TTE

Pathophysiology of abnormal IABP arterial waveforms 

Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation

ECG interpretation

ECG interpretation

ECG interpretation

Care for the patient with an aortic dissection

Atrial fibrillation: assessment and management

Transoesophageal echocardiography in the ICU

ECG interpretation: Short QT

ECG interpretation: ST changes in AVR

ECG interpretation: long QT

VA ECMO: indications, contraindications, complications

Transthoracic echo: tamponade, cardiac output and volume assessment

Role of post-resuscitative coronary angiography

ECG interpretation: electrical alternans

ECG interpretation: Wellens syndrome

ECG interpretation: Brugada

Cardiac arrest in the pregnant patient

Polymorphic VT - recognition and management

Causes of cardiac arrest: potentially, an air embolism

"Guess That ECG": RBBB plus bifascicular block

"Guess That ECG": atrial flutter with 1:1 conduction

"Guess That ECG": left ventricular aneurysm

Interpretation of the raised troponin in a critically ill patient

Severe hypothermia and management of hypothermic cardiac arrest

ECG interpretation: prolonged QT

ECG interpretation: right heart failure

Clinical signs of cardiac disease: right heart failure

Causes of shock: cardiogenic shock following myocardial infarction

Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

Complications of angiography - diagnosis and management

Clinical signs of cardiovascular disease

Right heart failure: management of right heart failure

ECG interpretation: right sided infarct and complete heart block

Heart failure: methods of assessment of right ventricular failure

Cardiac arrest in the pregnant patient

The value of post-arrest angiography

ECG interpretation: broad complex regular tachycardia

ECG interpretation - polymorphic VT

Prognostication following cardiac arrest - factors which confound it

ECG criteria for distinguishing VT from SVT 

ECG (WPW)

ECG (hyperkalemia)

ECG: trifascicular block

Intepretation of a troponin leak in a septic patient

Mechanical haemodynamic support

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- complete heart block

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- HOCM

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- hypokalemia with u-waves

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- RV hypertrophy

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- epicardial pacing lead reveresal

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- WPW, this time in AF

Approach to the patient with undifferentiated shock

Clinical signs of valve disease: AR severity, indications for AVR, causes of systolic murmur.

Cardiac arrest in pregnancy: especially, peri-mortem Caesarian

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Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality" (Wolff- Parkinson-White syndrome)

Cardiac tamponade: with a focus on pulsus paradoxus

Clinical signs of cardiovascular disease: right heart failure. Also, causes of pulmonary hypertension.

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Evaluation of aortic dissection: comparison of CT, TOE, MRI and angiography.

Features which influence prognosis following cardiac arrest

Therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest, brain injury and other "extended indications"

Management of severe heart failure: this time, the right heart only

Transthoracic echocardiography in the ICU: recognition of fatal TTE abnormalities

Transthoracic echocardiography in the ICU: use of TTE during a cardiac arrest.

The utility of somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) in post-arrest prognostication

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Indications for ECMO, and specifically the relative merits of VV and VA ECMO.

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What are the different causes of shock (in this pancreatitis patient)?

Factors which influence prognosis following cardiac arrest

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Cardiovascular physical examination:  how to distinguish AR from MS

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Mechanical haemodynamic support for cardiogenic shock

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Normal IABP waveform,  physiological principles and practical aspects of IABP function

Atrial fibrillation: management of AF in the ICU

What's wrong with this abnormal IABP waveform?

Cardiovascular physical examination:  4 causes of an apical diastolic murmur

Cardiac biomarkers: specifically, critically evaluate the use of troponin.

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Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

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Complications of arterial cannulation: a trashed limb post angiography.

Prognostication following cardiac arrest: the utility of various parameters.

Approach to the undifferentiated shock patient

Cardiac biomarkers in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction.

Evaluation of aortic dissection: TOE vs CT vs MRI vs aortogram.

Applications of ECMO; also some literature supporting the use of ECMO.

Assessment of valve dysfunction: grading the severity of aortic stenosis

Causes of pulseless electrical activity arrest.

Cardiovascular physical examination:  clinical features of Tetralogy of Fallot.

Cardiovascular physical examination:  causes of a "double peak" pulse .

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios: investigations

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios: causes of cardiac arrest

What are the different causes of shock (in this pancreatitis patient)?

Conventional CPR vs. compression-only CPR.

Cardiovascular physical examination:  causes of an apical diastolic murmur.

Management of severe heart failure: specifically right heart failure.

Cardiovascular physical examination:  causes of an irregularly irregular pulse.

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

Types of ECMO, and typical complications associated with ECMO

Interpretation of abnormal IABP waveforms: the significance of early balloon deflation.

Cardiovascular physical examination:  causes of an apical diastolic murmur

Cardiovascular physical examination: signs of pulmonary hypertension

Transthoracic echocardiography in the ICU:  HOCM and LVOTO

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"- WPW

Differential causes of shock, lightly garnished with a history of burns.

Transthoracic echocardiography in the ICU: echo features of AS severity

Discriminating cardiac from non-cardiac causes of pulmonary oedema

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Cardiovascular physical examination: auscultation of ASD, VSD and PDA.

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Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

Prognostication following cardiac arrest: "useful information" in determining prognosis. 

Cardiovascular physical examination: features of severe AS (also on TTE)

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) vs transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE)

Indications for extracoporeal therapies: ECMO, dialysis, plasmapheresis, LVAD, etc.

The evidence base for current advanced life support practice

A comparison of IABP and LVAD; more broadly mechanical haemodynamic support strategies

Extended indications for therapeutic hypothermia - not limited to cardiac arrest.

Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

Cardiac biomarkers: specifically, critically evaluate the use of troponin.

Complications of arterial cannulation and angiography: retroperitoneal haematoma

Cardiovascular physical examination: causes of a pansystolic murmur.

Indications, contraindications and complications of IABP

Ventricular fibrillation: causes, and principles of management

Antiarrhythmic drugs in resuscitation of cardiac arrest.

Management of superior vena cava obstruction

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Another game of "Name That ECG Abnormality"

Evaluation of aortic dissection: which modality is better for diagnosis of aortic injuries.

Cardioversion: "critically evaluate" its use in the ICU

Causes of PEA arrest, and their management.

Atrial fibrillation: management of rapid atrial fibrillation.

Complications of arterial cannulation and angiography: retroperitoneal haematoma

Ventricular fibrillation (causes and management thereof)

Cardiac biomarkers of myocardial ischaemia: troponin vs. CKMB

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios: causes of cardiac arrest

Prognostication after cardiac arrest

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

Mild therapeutic hypothermia for survivors of cardiac arrest

Influence of AICD function and malfunction on ICU management.

Leadership in a cardiac arrest.

Management of severe heart failure:  role of cardioselective beta-blockers

Management of ventricular tachycardia

Management of severe heart failure: pharmacotherapy

Management of PEA arrest: the non-shockable algorithm.

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios: investigations

Approach to cardiac arrest and peri-arrest scenarios: causes of cardiac arrest