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Know About Cardiogenic Shock

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When the heart is not able to pump enough blood for the needs of the body and the blood pressure falls, it is known as cardiogenic shock. Most important cause of cardiogenic shock is a heart attack. Cardiogenic shock is a potentially life threatening condition and needs urgent treatment.

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An elderly woman with acute vomiting, presyncope, and hypotension, and a wide QRS complex

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This pattern is essentially always accompanied by cardiogenic shock and high rates of VT/VF arrest, etc. The patient arrived to the ED in cardiogenic shock but awake. With so much STD in leftward and inferior leads V4-V6, II, III, and aVF, of course there must be STE in aVR. Code STEMI was activated.

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American College of Cardiology ACC.24 Late-breaking Science and Guidelines Session Summary

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ET Main Tent (Hall B1) Self-expanding Versus Balloon-expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Small Aortic Annuli: Primary Outcomes from the Randomized Smart Trial Effect of Edetate Disodium Based Chelation Infusions on Cardiovascular Events in Post-MI Patients with Diabetes: The TACT2 Trial Long-term Beta-blocker Treatment (..)

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How does Acute Total Left Main Coronary occlusion present on the ECG?

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Primary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction with right bundle branch block: should new onset right bundle branch block be added to future guidelines as an indication for reperfusion therapy? TIMI flow 0) is rare in the ED, as most either die before arrival or are recognized clinically due to cardiogenic shock.

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection Dissection of a coronary artery may occur in the context of atherosclerosis, or be iatrogennic during angiography or angioplasty. were pretty sick, with mostly LM/pLAD lesions and high rates of cardiogenic shock. This case occurred 10+ years ago. Lobo et al. The SCAD cases in Lobo et al.

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The First 60 Minutes of a Heart Attack: The Golden Hour

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Once the patient reaches the hospital, the doctors will attempt to remove the clot using either a potent clot buster medicine [thrombolytic medicines] or a surgery known as primary angioplasty. Although both techniques have advantages and limitations, primary angioplasty is the chosen therapy in most cases.