Cardiology Critical Care
The heart is essential to staying alive. Most of our organs have a relationship with the heart; therefore, in patients with organ failure, the heart can often take a hit of its own. In many cases an cardiac insult is in the inciting factor to critical illness - such as STEMI in DKA, or right heart failure in massive PE. Knowing cardiac physiology and how to manage basic cardiac pathologies will help you manage overall critical illness.
Acute MI Management (focus on types and management)
FCCS Ch. 10
Marino 3rd ed: Ch. 17; 4th ed: Ch 16
Mayo Clinic: ACS part 1 Kumar (Drive)
Mayo Clinic: ACS part 2 Kumar (Drive)
Arrhythmias
Marino 3rd ed: Ch. 18; 4th ed: Ch 15
FOAMCast Episode 34: Tachyarrhythmia’s
Pulmcast: The Irregular Irregularities of Atrial Fibrillation
Emcrit Podcast 20: The Crashing Atrial Fibrillation Patient
ACLS:
PulmCrit: Treatment of Hemodynamically Stable New Onset AFib in Critical Illness (Drive)
Electrophysiology: VT Diagnosis Wellens (Drive)
Crit Care Med 2000: Bradyarrhythmia’s Kaushik (Drive)
Cardiac Arrests:
FCCS Ch. 3, FCCS Appendix 4
Marino 3rd ed: Ch. 15-16; 4th ed: Ch 17
Running a code
Pulmcast: The Anatomy of a Code
Targeted Temperature Management NEJM article (Drive)
Emcrit Podcast 126: Targeted Temperature Management
Congestive Heart Failure (focus on diagnosis and management)
MedCram: Heart Failure parts 1-3
FOAMCast Episode 7: Heart Failure
EmCrit Podcast Episode 1: SCAPE (Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema)
HTN Emergency/Urgency
EmCrit Podcast 190: Emergencies with a side of Hypertension
SOAP Basic Hypertensive Emergency Overview including Medications