Ep 166 Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade

There are few things more frustrating for an Emergency Physician than caring for patient after patient who lands in the ED not because it’s necessarily the best place for their care, but because every other door in the health care system was closed, confusing or impossible to fin ...  Show more

In this month’s EM Quick Hits Podcast, Amna Karabegovic joins us for an EMC² case of pediatric altered LOA and neurocritical care, Anand Swaminathan simplifies the high-risk management of pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure, and Brit Long reviews how to recognize ...  Show more

Contributor: Meghan Hurley MD

Educational Pearls:

Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardial sac, which can arise from infectious or non-in ...

This episode covers pericarditis.

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/medicine/cardiology/pericarditis/ or in the cardiology section of the 2nd edition of the Zero to Finals me ...

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the July 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Diagnosing and Treating Pericarditis and Myocarditis in the Emergency DepartmentEpidemiologyNomenclatureEtiologyDifferential diagnosisPrehospital careED history and physi ...  Show more

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