Intraoperative tranoesophageal echocardiography (ITOE) is a relatively new application of TOE which began in the 1980-90’s, but but has...
Archive for month: January, 2015
Right Atrial Masses – The case of HD instability during Dialysis
Aidan Burrell, , Cases, Masses & Aorta, 1You have been called to a MET call to assess a 68 year old lady who is haemodynamically unstable...
Intracardiac Masses or “U.E.O.” Not all masses seen in the cardiac chambers are going to be vegetations or thrombus....
A 70 year old lady was trapped for 90 minutes in her car after a motor vehicle accident in...
Sometimes, the worst thing you can do is hold your breath and hope for the best.
A 32 year old doctor playing recreational soccer got more than he bargained for…
Blunt Cardiac Injury (BCI) is a general term to describe all non penetrating injuries to the heart during trauma....
(from trauma.org) Pericardiocentesis is the process where a needle is passed percutaneously into the pericardial sac to drain accumulated...
48 year old man with persistent Staph aureus bacteraemia…
A summary of total artificial heart – part man, part machine..