Critical Care Teaching
  • Welcome
  • Week 1: Induction
    • NUH Critical Care
    • UHL Critical Care
  • Airway and breathing
    • Week 2: Airway and oxygenation
    • Week 3: Ventilation
    • Week 4: Weaning and rehabilitation
    • Week 5: Challenging scenarios in ventilation
  • Cardiac disease and physiology
    • Week 6: Cardiovascular manipulation
    • Week 7: Cardiac arrest and post-arrest management
    • Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care
    • Week 9: Renal replacement therapy
  • Neurointensive care
    • Week 10: Head injuries
    • Week 11: Confusion, delirium, and strokes
    • Week 12: Seizures and encephalitis
    • Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation
  • Everything else
    • Week 14: Fluids and nutrition
    • Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care
    • Week 16: Marginal gains and critical care
    • Week 17: Everything sepsis
  • Surgical specialities month
    • Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery
    • Week 19: Major trauma and burns
    • Week 20: Massive intra-abdominal surgery
    • Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics
  • Medical Specialities Month
    • Week 22: Haematology and oncology
    • Week 23: Respiratory medicine
    • Week 24: Microbiology
    • Week 25: End of life care on intensive care
  • Wrapping up
    • Week 26: Reflect, and pay it forward
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  1. Cardiac disease and physiology

Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care

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Topics to consider

  • Investigations: Troponin, echo, cardiac catheterisation, stress tests

  • Equipment that you might see: intra-aortic balloon pumps, pacemakers (temporary and permanent), assist devices (VADs, ECMO, bypass)

  • Interventions you might be involved with: PCI, management of acute coronary syndromes, ablations, TAVI, cardiac surgery

  • Risk stratification for cardiac (and pulmonary) disease

  • Valves and endocarditis

Resources

  • (BJAEd)

  • (IBCC)

  • (European Society of Cardiology)

  • , , and (LITFL)

  • (BJAEd)

  • (ESC)

  • (BJAEd)

  • More than you ever wanted to know about (IBCC)

  • Endocarditis:and

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Acute coronary syndromes
Heart failure in critical care
Readings around acute cardiac care
IABP
VADs
ECMO
Risk assessment tools
Cardiovascular risk assessment
Pulmonary hypertension in critical care
troponin
BJAEd
IBCC
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