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#Cardiotwitter
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1/ It’s
#July
!! Welcome aboard new fellows! Over the next few days I’ll post things that will be helpful as you start your training!
To start- a
#tweettutorial
on CATH LAB VIEWS!
🔑 LAO- left/right
🔑 RAO- ant/post
🔑 Cranial- distal
🔑 Caudal- proximal
#Cardiotwitter
#FellowBootcamp
Sinus Rhythm and
#EKGs
I teach every fellow/resident to take the time to read each of their patients EKGs. It is the only way you will get any better. Stick to the pattern:
RATE
RHYTHM
AXIS
A common mistake is claiming “sinus rhythm is a P before every QRS.”
1/ It’s
#July
!! Welcome aboard new fellows! Over the next few days I’ll post things that will be helpful as you start your training!
To start- a
#tweettutorial
on CATH LAB VIEWS!
🔑 LAO- left/right
🔑 RAO- ant/post
🔑 Cranial- distal
🔑 Caudal- proximal
#Cardiotwitter
It’s
#July
and we have new fellows! For all of you trying to learn
#cath
check out this video I made to help you with the views! My best piece of advice- look at as many films as possible! Repetition is what will give you success!
#cardiotwitter
#tweetorial
#ACCFIT
#radialfirst
It’s
#July1
!! Welcome aboard new fellows! Over the next few days I’ll post videos that will hopefully be helpful as you start your training!
To start- a tutorial on CATH LAB VIEWS!
🔑 LAO- left/right
🔑 RAO- ant/post
🔑 Cranial- distal
🔑 Caudal- proximal
#Cardiotwitter
Why is Kussmaul’s Sign not seen in tamponade? Understand the pathophysiology! Start to put the waveforms ➕ echo findings➕ and physical exam all together! Cardiology is the best!
#ACCFIT
#CardiologyNerd
#cardiotwitter
#cardiology
#kussmauls
original video before my edits med.key
McConnell sign:
💔Regional right ventricular dysfunction in acute pulmonary embolism. The right ventricle (RV) is enlarged and right ventricular regional function is abnormal, with dyskinesis of the midwall region and relative sparing of the apex and base.
#Cardiotwitter
#PE
As I approach the end of my fellowship one important piece of advice for future IC fellows. Learn how to manipulate the guide! Wiring/balloon are the easy part. Controlling the guide and understanding how it reacts to moving equipment is what makes or breaks you!
#cardiotwitter
I’m not sure who taught us all this concept of “P before every QRS” is sinus, but LETS END THE MADNESS!!Here’s a video of knowing P wave axis and why Sinus occurs even in the setting of AV dissociation! Please share with all our poor medical students!
#CardioTwitter
#ACCFIT
#EKG
MD vs DO? THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. A good doctor is a good doctor. Find someone that cares about you and does everything to keep you healthy. If you are a
#premed
-take whatever path you are granted and run with it. You can be successful if you work hard and believe in yourself.
Here’s some amazing 3D recreations of the heart by
@SciePro
. The heart never ceases to amaze me!! Happy Saturday!
What’s your favorite cardiac structure?? Mine is the mitral valve!
…Also…I kinda have a love/hate relationship with the RCA!
#Cardiotwitter
#cardiology
Ebstein’s Anomaly
📌>8mm septal leaflet displacement
📌>50% of patient will have WPW (wolf Parkinson white syndrome)
📌>90% will have a interatrial connection (ASD/PFO) that can lead to cyanosis
📌 Right ventricular atrialization with severe TR
#Cardiotwitter
#Cardiology
#Whycardiology
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💝 One of the best choices I made in life was to become a cardiologist. Honestly it’s what I’ve wanted to do my whole life. It’s been one hell of a long road. 4 years med school, 3 years
#residency
, 3 years cardiology, and 1 year IC
#fellowship
, but in the
Little physical exam finding for the end of the week! Quinke’s Pulse in chronic severe AI! Many of the physical exam findings relate to the high stroke volume, widened pulse pressure, and rapid arterial pressure drop associated with chronic AI!
#cardiotwitter
#ACCFIT
#cardiology
CMR 4D flow. Man what a site. Unlike Doppler echo or 2D cine PC-CMR, 4D Flow CMR acquisition includes ✔️measurements representing all directions and spatial regions of flow
✔️Pulsatile blood flow through the cavities of the heart and great vessels.
#cardiotwitter
#cardiology
🎥Check out this video I made showing the normal flow of blood towards and away from the heart! Credit V. Tatoo for the original picture.❓My favorite cardiovascular structure is the aortic valve and aorta! What’s your favorite part of the cardiovascular system?
#cardiotwitter
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It’s the first real week of July so here’s my video on BASIC CATH VIEWS!
First year fellows it’s going to feel impossible to learn everything cardiology has to offer, but don’t worry! Take your time and learn something new everyday!
#Cardiotwitter
#ACCearlyCareer
#Radialfirst
LV GRAM KEYS
🔑 NEVER use an end hole catheter (risk of perforation
🔑 RAO 30 standard view. LAO if you want to assess septum/lateral wall/VSD
🔑 Power Injector- 6F PIG tail with 10cc for 3 sec. 800 PSI 0.5 rise (varies)
🔑 comment on WMA, size, MR grade, and misc findings
#Fellowbootcamp
- Vascular Access!
My goals in the Cath lab for a first year:
🛑Safety
🟢Access
😎Getting the RCA
In the first couple of months of your training focus on these important concepts. Understand both
#RadialFirst
and
#SafeFemoral
..ultrasound and micro puncture!
Had some down time due to elective cases being cancelled. Here’s a video I made on
#COVID19
and the Cardiovascular System! Thanks to everyone for sharing knowledge!
#medTwitter
has helped providers gain information on this novel virus quickly!
#ACCFIT
#Carfiotwitter
#Cardiology
(1/)—🅰🆁🆃🅴🆁🅸🅾🆂🅰 🅻🆄🆂🅾🆁🅸🅰
➡️Arteria Lusoria or aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) is the most common congenital arch anomaly in which the right subclavian artery originates from the descending aorta, distal to the left subclavian at the ductus arteriosus.
For the fellows!
#FellowBootCamp
!
Yes yes yes, trigger
#EchoFirst
peeps 😂 but that doesn’t mean never do LV gram! Gives more data/ useful in a pinch.
🔑 RAO 30 Projection (MC)
🔑 LAO for septum/lateral wall
🔑 Power injection (I like 10:3)
🔑 PIG tail always. Never end
Fellow boot camp- Vascular Access!
My goals in the Cath lab for a first year:
🛑Safety
🟢Access
😎Getting the RCA
In the first couple of months of your training focus on these important concepts. Understand both
#RadialFirst
and
#SafeFemoral
..ultrasound and micro puncture!
PLAX- PARASTERNAL long axis. One of my favs
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Here’s a great animation of the anatomy we can assess in the parasternal long axis view (PLAX). This is one of my favorite views (because it’s pretty easy to get) and can help you assess multiple structures in a pinch.
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To
⭐️No Reflow review:
💊IC nicardipine 50mcg (goal 400 mcg)
💊IC Adenosine (20 cc from 500cc mixed bag= 120mcg) (goal 100-200 mcg). REOPEN-AMI used adenosine 120mcg bolus followed by slow infusion of 2mg in 33ml saline over 2 min
💊IC Nitroprusside 50-300 mcg
💊IC Epi 100-400mcg
(1/)Let’s review venous insufficiency! Remember veins require valves and muscle tone to get blood back to the heart! Many of our patients suffer with chronic venous insufficiency daily! It’s vastly under diagnosed!
Video credit- Brandon Seltzer animations
#Cardiotwitter
#Veins
(1/4) Bifurcation stenting! A tough concept to master! To those starting IC fellowship in a month focus on learning a provisional strategy (TAP) and then a good 2 stent strategy (i prefer DK crush), remember anatomy and situation always dictates what you do!
@GoranEBC
#ACCFIT
The cytokine storm. We hear so much about it but are we missing our window to treat it? When is the optimal time for IL-6 inhibition? How about steroids? Any other therapies being used? Discuss ⬇️!
#Covid19
#frontlines
#ACCFIT
#coronavirus
For the fellows! LV GRAM TIPS!
Yes yes yes, trigger
#EchoFirst
peeps 😂 but that doesn’t mean never do LV gram! Gives more data/ useful in a pinch.
🔑 RAO 30 Projection (MC)
🔑 LAO for septum/lateral wall
🔑 Power injection (I like 10:3)
🔑 PIG tail always. Never end hole
#SafeFemoral
Tips
🫳🏽Always palpate first (keeps ur skill)
🎥Floro hemostats at bottom 3rd fem
🔊Use ultrasound ALWAYS
💉Use micropuncture ALWAYS
🍭Sweet spot- above bi below epigast
🔎Floro micro wire up
📸Take a quick pic (optional)
💪🏽Stiff wire/glide sheath if needed
How the 🆅🅴🅽🆃🆁🅸🅲🅻🅴 contracts..
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💗Another great thing I picked up from Cardiothoracic surgery was understanding how the ventricles contract. The ventricle Is such a complex structure that we are learning more and more about. One thing that has helped us understand
Stick to a pattern and always read your own images! For CXRs:
A- airway
B- bones
C- cardiac
D- diaphragm
E- everything else
One of the best lessons I was taught was to always look at my own images! You’ll pick up things that were missed!
#Cardiotwitter
#ACCFIT
#radiology
#Scleroderma
a tough dz to deal with. In
#cardiology
it’s a dz that causes severe PAH, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and cor pulmonale. Don’t over diurese these patients, avoid TEEs and radial caths, and get them to a PAH specialist ASAP for combo therapy!
#Cardiotwitter
#Echofirst
2023 was an interesting year for me as a
#DO
I took over for our long term program director for the fellowship program. When the ACGME and AOA merged in 2018 one of their “requirements” was that all Program directors had to be ABIM certified. This negated my AOBIM
1/2 Studying for
#ICboards
is making me review all my Noninvasive knowledge! I advise all of you out there that treat
#PAD
to learn how to interpret vascular! It helps so much with patient assessment as well as intraprocedurally! Here’s a video I made previously!
#cardiotwitter
Fellow bootcamp-
#RadialFirst
!
Seems easy. Its easy. follow steps
2️⃣ finger breadths⬆️ rad styloid
❌Don’t give too much lido!
💉Thru and thru works
✈️Wire should fly, don’t push
✅ALWAYS use glide sheath
💊Give cocktail/don’t forget heparin
❌Don’t need Allen’s, +/- U/S
#Fellowbootcamp
- Vascular Access!
My goals in the Cath lab for a first year:
🛑Safety
🟢Access
😎Getting the RCA
In the first couple of months of your training focus on these important concepts. Understand both
#RadialFirst
and
#SafeFemoral
..ultrasound and micro puncture!
For the fellows!
#FellowBootCamp
!
Yes yes yes, trigger
#EchoFirst
peeps 😂 but that doesn’t mean never do LV gram! Gives more data/ useful in a pinch.
🔑 RAO 30 Projection (MC)
🔑 LAO for septum/lateral wall
🔑 Power injection (I like 10:3)
🔑 PIG tail always. Never end
Can’t tell you how many times this device has saved me in my
#ACCEarlyCareer
In training I was all about large bore MCS but it came with a lot of access site issues etc.
IABP has been a great tool especially as a bridge while you stabilize/escalate med therapy.
Studying for IC boards and amazed at how much
#EchoFirst
I’ve forgotten! Review on VSDs.
1️⃣: Perimembraneous ~80% (MC)
2️⃣: Muscular ~10% (aka trabecular)
3️⃣: Outlet ~6% (aka cristal, Subpulm, MC Asians,associated with AI)
4️⃣: Inlet ~4% (Downs Syn, complete AV defects, cleft MV)
How about a little infectious disease on Monday? Underdiagnosed and clinically significant don’t forget to look for
#Chagas
Disease in your NICM! 30% will present 20 years after infection! LV gram credit to twitter (forgot where I got this).
#Cardiotwitter
#ACCFIT
#SoME
#FOAMed
HEYDE’S syndrome!
The psychophysiology of how this syndrome occurs is amazing!
💓Sheer stress from severe AS
🔗Uncoils vWF
✂️Allows ADAMTS-13 to cut and deactivate vWP
💩Intestinal dysplasia/AVMs
🩸Inactive vWF cannot bind to the collagen, no clot forms.
#Cardiology
#GI
Weekend PE! Functional 90 y/o recent hip replacement presented w/ hypotension and hypoxia. High risk saddle PE. 2 whoosh T24! It’s amazing seeing a pt immediately go from 15L to room air in the lab!
She has residual RCFV-PT DVT. I elected to treat medically. Anyone put a filter
Associate Program Director and 6x board certified interventional and structural cardiologist? Think I’m good being a D.O. Get your facts straight
@hasanminhaj
@jimmyfallon
!
@AOAforDOs
DO/MD are the same! We are in this together! Stop trying to divide us!
#Medicine
#Ignorance
#DO
#FellowBootcamp
Sinus Rhythm and
#EKGs
I teach every fellow/resident to take the time to read each of their patients EKGs. It is the only way you will get any better. Stick to the pattern:
RATE
RHYTHM
AXIS
A common mistake is claiming “sinus rhythm is a P before every QRS.”
Tip to fellows/residents- large pericardial effusions r not always tamponade! Think of the pericardium as a rubber sack! It has the ability to stretch over TIME but if fluid accumulates to fast it’s tenses up and can’t stretch leading to Tamponde. It’s the RATE not the Volume!
1/ Atypical CLOT- a tweetorial
I recently saw a controversial tweet arguing against tx of chronic clot and restricting tx SOLEY to the CFV/iliac. While I agree (for the most part)- data is limited. At the end of the day we care about the pt, and not every pt is the same! Case➡️
Bicuspid Aortic Valve
Type 0️⃣- “true” Bicuspid: has 2 leaflets either in a ant/post or R/L (7%)
Type 1️⃣ (1 raphe -88%)-
(1A) fusion of R+L cusps (MC- 60%)), (1B) fusion of R+ NCC (10%)
(1C) fusion of L+ NCC (least common- <1%)
Type 2️⃣ (2 raphe)- functional unicuspid valve
A-D-E-N-O-S-I-N-E .
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💊Adenosine (or adenosine like molecules) are agents we use in cardiology regularly. Adenosine is a natural molecule found in our cells that assists with multiple biological process such as energy transfer (ATP and ADP) as well as cellular signaling
Young patient (Covid-) presents with RUE weakness. CT negative. Carotid Doppler with LICA 70% stenosis with thrombus. Echo ordered and see this. What are the treatment options?
#Cardiotwitter
#Echofirst
#thrombus
#cardiology
the monster I got out over the weekend! The T24 flex =game changer.
Pro tip- put the amplatz super stiff in the left PA rather than the right on initial advancement if you have difficulty getting the catheter up in the setting of RV dilation.
#Thrombectomy
#PE
#ACCEarlyCareer
1/ What features PRIOR to intervention are suggestive of adverse prognosis in acute PE?
Which marker do you suggest is the highest risk of poor outcome DURING intervention?
#Cardiotwitter
#VTE
#pe
What’s your favorite QRS axis deviation!? Mine =right axis! I feel like it gives me a nice short list of differentials that’s could be very useful in settings with limited testing. Also for residents learn the difference between lead reversal and Dextrocardia!
#cardiotwitter
#EKG
☄️Rhabdomyomas —Tuberous sclerosis
👶🏽Rhabdomyomas (benign cardiac tumors) develops almost exclusively in children, mostly before the age of one year, and approximately 80 to 90 percent are associated with tuberous sclerosis
#Cardiotwitter
#Echofirst
#WhyMRI
#ACCFIT
#pediatrics
Pericardial sheath.
1) 0.018 micropuncture dilator
2) bubble study with echo to confirm
3) nitrex and 6F radial glide sheath
4) pericardial PIG tail drain
Sheath helps with repositioning and advancing PIG thru adipose. Plus no need to exchange for 0.035 wire!
#Cardiotwitter
Day 2 on
#COVID19
unit
💪🏽IV heparin worked. No line thrombosis today
🤔Now doing IV heparin for worsening renal fx and elevating inflam markers. Renal emboli?
✅LDH, CRP, DDI, ferritin instead of IL6 (takes to long)
💊Guaifenesin to thin secretions
😞Covids look better than crash
Mid 50 y/o Pt presents w/ severe left leg pain and SOB.
CT➡️saddle PE that was treated with thrombectomy. Post SOB resolved but still with severe leg pain/difficulty ambulating so brought back 48 hrs later for DVT. Patient walked out of hospital off O2 and did great!
#DVT
#PE