Cardiology Dx
Embryology
Anatomy + Physiology
Blood pressure homeostasis:
Examination
Conduct an ECG
Interpret
Dx (epidemiology, pathophysiology, presentation, DDx, Ix, Mx, complications and their Mx, prevention
Anatomy + Physiology
- conduction
- cardiac cycle
- cardiac output
Blood pressure homeostasis:
- circulatory control (e.g. splanchnic, macro and microvascular, pulmonary, cerebral)
- shock
Examination
Conduct an ECG
Interpret
- ECG
- CXR
- ECHO
- Cardiac catheterisation (wedge = balloon in pulm art branch, transducer distal, estimates LA pressure)
Dx (epidemiology, pathophysiology, presentation, DDx, Ix, Mx, complications and their Mx, prevention
- innocent murmurs
- cyanotic neonate
- hypertension
- arrhythmias and syncope
- heart failure
- congenital heart disease
- duct dependent lesions
- Acute Rheumatic Fever
- Carditis: Infective endocarditis
- Kawasaki disease
- valvular heart disease
- cardiomyopathy
- Cardiovascular manifestations of systemic and chronic disease
- chromosomal syndromes
- trisomy 21
- Turner’s (XO)
- DiGeorge (22q11 deletion)
- Noonan’s (multiple genes)
- Williams
- VACTERAL
- CHARGE
- muscular dystrophy
- Marfan's
- cytotoxic treatments
- chromosomal syndromes