This week's topic: pericardial effusions and cardiac tamponade
Articles / Content for Discussion are listed below with the PDFs attached to this email.
Extra Content can be found below in the green text for anyone wanting to dive into the topic further. (Most of the extra content is available via hyperlinks, one is an attached pdf)
Article 1
What Echocardiography Findings Suggest a Pericardial Effusion is Causing Tamponade? – American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Article 2
A Novel In-Plane Technique for US-Guided Pericardiocentesis – American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Article 3
Pericardial Tamponade: A Comprehensive EM and Echocardiography Review – American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Article 4
Emergency Department POCUS Improves Time to Pericardiocentesis for Clinically Significant Effusions – Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine
Fellows / Rotators – Please watch the Master Echo Series Chapter 18 & Ma and Mateer Chapter 5 (transthoracic echo)
**** EXTRAS ****
Ultrasound Gel: Breakdown of Article 4 (podcast available too)
123 Sono Cheat Sheet on Pericardial Disease
Extra PDF Cheat Sheet on Pericardial Disease…more advanced but here if you want it (attached)
POCUS 101 Cardiac Echo
5 min Sono
Article-1_tamponade_AMJEM2018.pdf Article-2_nagdev_pericardiocentesis_2013.pdf Article-3_Pericardial-tamponade-A-comprehensive-EM-and-echocardiography-review.pdf Article-4_ED-POCUS-Improves-Time-to-Pericardiocentesis-for-Clinically-Significant-Effusions-3.pdf Extra_Chapter-18-Pericardial-Disease_0.pdf