The #WorldCup2022 ⚽️ finals are set 🇦🇷vs🇫🇷 & is just a few days away, but don't forget about Christian Erikson 🇩🇰 and what happened to his heart in June of 2021.
A 🧵on Sudden Cardiac death (SCD) in athletes 💔….
with edits from @AHajduczok@MichaelEmeryMD and @CardioNerds
We will talk about:
⚡️Global incidence of SCD and sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in the general and athlete populations
⚡️Etiologies implicated in SCD/SCA
⚡️If and how we can prevent SCD/SCA
Jul 13, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
📢📢📢 Calling all @Cardionerds! You see a patient in clinic and you hear 🩺 an extra heart sound that resembles the rhythm of KEN-tu-cky. What's going on⁉️
An audible S3 heart sound in a patient with dyspnea😮💨 has a positive LR of 11 for heart failure. Sensitivity-13% Specificity- 99%
In pts with Hx of Asthma or COPD: positive LR increases to 57‼️ Sensitivity-17% Specificity-100% 😮😮😮