Month: February 2019
Baseline ECG changes in life-threatening arrhytmia
When assesing patients with collapse with unidentified cause, its possible underlying arrhytmia is present. The following ECG changes can suggest this
- 1. Short PR interval and delta-wave: WPW
- 2. Epsilon wave in arrhytmogenic (right) cardiomyopathy
- 3. Long QT syndrome
- 4. Brugada sign (type 1 or type 2)
This list is ongoing and not complete yet
Nice video about symmetry
Differential diagnosis
When making a differential diagnosis based on etiology you could use the mnemonic
A VITAMIN CPE.
Which stands for
Auto-imune, vascular, infection, trauma/toxic, a, metbolic/medication, iatrogenic/idiopahttic, neoplasma, congenital, psychiatric, endocrine
Two great videos about entropy
Entropy is just the number of different arrangements a certain state can have.
Effect on pressure on chips bag