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Feb 2024
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Right Ventricular Heart Failure

EB Medicine
About this episode

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and T.R. Eckler MD interview Nick Harrison, MD and Daniel Brenner, MD, two of the authors of the February 2024 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Emergency Department Management of Patients With Right Heart Failure


  • Pathophysiology
  • Presenting Symptoms
  • Differential Diagnosis
  • Specific Acute Causes
  • PE
  • Sepsis
  • RVMI
  • PPV
  • ARDS
  • COVID-19
  • Specific Chronic Causes
  • CTEPH
  • Left Heart Failure
  • Congenital Heart Disease
  • LVAD
  • Lung Disease Group 3 Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
  • Prehospital Care
  • ED history and Physical
  • Biomarkers
  • ECG (table 5)
  • Imaging
  • Echo
  • CT
  • MRI
  • Treatment
  • Revascularization
  • Respiratory Support
  • Vasopressors and Inotropes


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