In this episode, Dave is joined by Tarlan Hedayati, MD, to discuss Bradycardias and Blocks.

Dr.Hedayati is a practicing Emergency Physican in Cook County, Chicago. She is also the Associate Professor and Chair of Education for the Emergency Medicine Department. 

Also In This Episode

• Defining Bradycardia
• Stable vs. unstable
• Sinus vs. not sinus
• Narrow vs. wide
• AV Blocks
• ECG Tracing example 1
  • 1st Degree AV Block 
  • 2nd Degree AV Block
• ECG Tracing example 2
• ECG Tracing example 3
  • 3rd Degree Heart Block
• What is causing this Bradycardia?
• ECG Tracing example 4
  • Bradycardia in ACS
• Clinical context
  • ECG Tracing example 5
• The Brady Bunch
  • Beta Blockers, CCB, Clonidine, Digoxin
• ECG Tracing example 6
  • Hyperkalemia
• ECG Tracing example 7
  • Slow and narrow
• ECG Tracing example 8
  • Regular and wide
• ECG Tracing example 9
  • Osborn waves
• ECG Challenge 
• The Cardiac Monitor is a dirty rotten scoundrel 

 

Connect with Tarlan Hedayati: 

Twitter: @HedayatiMD https://twitter.com/HedayatiMD

 

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