Electrolytes and the Heart
I was talking to a group of my junior registrars the other day about cardiac…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Supraventricular Tachycardia(SVT) in Infants
A mother brings her 7 month old son to the Emergency Department, as he has…
The HEART Score for sorting Low Risk Chest Pain Patients
The patient with chest pain is the most common presentation to Emergency Departments. And certainly…
Dr Peter Kas13/11/2024
Chest Pain: How Sure Are We at Predicting?
Here’s a scary problem …. If I was a paramedic, not an emergency physician with…
Dr Peter Kas08/04/2022
Pulmonary Embolism in Patients With Syncope
HOT OFF THE PRESS Prandoni P et al. Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism among Patients Hospitalised…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Trans-venous pacing of bradycardia.
This case study involves an elderly gentleman who needed trans-venous pacing. Here is a simple…
Dr Peter Kas02/07/2023
The ECG’s of Syncope
I'm not sure about you, but I seem to be seeing more patients with syncope…
Dr Peter Kas27/08/2023
The Crashing Atrial Fibrillation Patient- Part 2- What inotrope to use?
Let me remind you of the patient we had in part 1 of this blog.…
Dr Peter Kas14/11/2024
The Crashing Atrial Fibrillation Patient: Part 1
You know this patient. You've probably seen a patient, just like this. They are old,…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Pseudo-Wellens' Syndrome
I recently saw post-op patient sent down to the ED (no ICU at this hospital),…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy is a transient syndrome that mimics an acute myocardial infarction(MI) and patients present with…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest- Colder may not be better!
This is Hot of the Press! November 17th 2013 New England Journal of Medicine, Neilsen…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
You take your eye off the ball for one moment and the next thing you know…………
After 16 years of trying, just when I thought I was starting to get the…
Dr Peter Kas14/11/2024
Is incidental Left Bundle Branch Block Benign?
Here's the case. You see a 24 year old male who presents with a history…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
How can I tell if a wide complex tachycardia is Ventricular Tachycardia(VT) or something else?
The story so far: A 72 yo man is brought into your emergency department by…
Dr Peter Kas14/11/2024
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
A group of disorders commonly bundled together and known as Pre-excitation Syndromes. Incidence is quite…
Dr Peter Kas09/01/2023
