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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 010 | Cardiac disease in pregnancy

Emergency Medicine Ireland

As the pregnant population continues to age and with RF and smoking and DM still common we can expect to see pregnant woman with CAD. Pregnancy itself with its bump in plasma volume, reduced Hb and increased cardiac output is like one long exercise stress test. Well, most commonly we’re going to see ACS.

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He had significant history of CAD with CABG x5, and repeat CABG x 2 as well as a subsequent PCI of the graft to the RCA (twice) and of the graft to the Diagonal. Internal potassium balance and the control of the plasma potassium concentration. mmol/L and all subsequent plasma concentrations significantly increased from baseline.

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