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Interventional Cardiologist. Combat Veteran. Father. #CardiacCriticalCare #CardiogenicShock #CTO101 #ImageFirst #RadialFirst
Jun 28, 2020 8 tweets 6 min read
1/7 Vascular Access for Shock-MCS. Do it the same way every time (“slow is smooth, smooth is fast”). Fluoro Femoral Head. US-guided Micropuncture access, observe micro wire advancement, perform access site angiogram (with wire left in), Preclose (single Perclose)... 2/7 Aorto-Iliac angiography (with run-off) for complete pre-insertion vascular assessment...
Feb 23, 2020 25 tweets 26 min read
Kicking off @CRT_meeting #CardiogenicShock sessions: Pathophysiology by @drmortkern... Don’t forget the RV: by #DrJamesGoldstein...
Apr 1, 2019 6 tweets 9 min read
1/6 Standardized Team-Based Care for Cardiogenic Shock...courtesy of @behnam_tehrani on behalf of our INOVA-SHOCK team (with additional embedded online-only Tables and Figures): onlinejacc.org/content/73/13/…... #waronshock 2/6 And...an accompanying editorial by @TanveerRab emphasizing the importance of protocols, “teams of teams”, and hub-spoke systems of care: onlinejacc.org/content/73/13/…... #waronshock