cardiology – St. Joseph's Health Center: Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Cardiac Tamponade

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Conference Cast, Silk City Blog, Ultrasound November 8, 2021November 8, 2021Comments are Disabled

Pericardial effusions and pericardial tamponade can be caused by multiple mechanisms (e.g.,traumatic, infectious, inflammatory, etc.)

Case of the Week COW#13

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Case of the Week, Silk City Blog February 23, 2018April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

CC: Chest Pain HPI: 49-year-old female brought in via ALS presents complaining of Chest pain. As per the Paramedics, the patient was found to be in no acute distress, stating she had exertional chest pain, which had subsided. The pre-hospital ECG was suspicious for ischemia and she was given ASA. Patient states she was walking home …

Case of the Week COW #7

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Case of the Week, Silk City Blog August 31, 2017April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

CC: Numbness and palpitations HPI: 21-year-old Female presents to the Emergency Department (ED) complaining of palpitations and left arm weakness with perioral numbness, which began just prior to arrival. The patient states the episode lasted 30 minutes before completely resolving on its own. In the ED, she denies any other complaints except for a mild …

ACEP Now Review on LVADs

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Critical Care August 27, 2017Comments are Disabled

Check out this excellent review on managing patients with LVADs from this month’s ACEP Now publication which was written by our own Dr. Yenisleidy Paez Perez, DO PGY-3 and one of our newly graduated residents, Dr. Terrance McGovern, DO.

Case of the Week (COW) #5

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Case of the Week, Silk City Blog July 17, 2017April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

We have another cool EKG and arrhythmia coming in today, check it out!

Take Home Pearls from 2017 UM EM Cardiac Arrest Symposium

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Conference Pearls, Silk City Blog April 13, 2017April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

Check out this review of the key points of each lecture from the 2017 University of Maryland Emergency Cardiology Symposium which was hosted by Amal Mattu, MD in Baltimore, MD. This year’s topic was cardiac arrest.

Case of the Week #1

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Case of the Week, Critical Care, Silk City Blog March 5, 2017April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

Our inaugural first Case of the Week is brought to you by Dr. Kristen Pena with a tricky EKG case!

Blunt chest trauma

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Silk City Blog, Trauma August 1, 2016April 16, 2021Comments are Disabled

Being in a car accident, even the most benign one imaginable, can be stressful for patients. Inherently, if they have any chest pain they’re going to be convinced they’ve sheared their aorta right off its hinges. While that may be of concern to them, we are pretty certain that their aorta is still intact if they still are alive, but did they sustain a cardiac contusion? How do we even figure out if they had one? And what the heck do we do with them if they did in fact have a cardiac contusion?