cardiothoracic

My Littmann Cardiology III black edition served me well for all of medical school and residency, and over eight years later, I'm now replacing it for my second stethoscope - the Littmann Master Cardiology black edition.
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Our thoracic ICU rotation is perhaps the most difficult rotation we have as anesthesia critical care fellows. For two weeks, we're q2 call (meaning on call every other day). The patients are super sick, but the pathologies are incredibly…
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As a critical care fellow, I'll spend a total of two months (four, 2-week rotations) in the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU). I just finished my first rotation there and got to befriend many of the cardiac surgery attendings and fellows…
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It's possible to utilize transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), a noninvasive technique, to estimate a patient's cardiac output. I'll use some images from an echo I performed on a patient with a depressed left ventricular ejection fraction…
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Due to the right ventricle's (RV) unique geometry and cylindrical contraction pattern, assessing its function on echocardiography can be difficult. One of the more simple and reproducible techniques used to determine RV function is the…
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