When should you fold or Holt onto your cards for palpitations? Learn about properly characterizing a patient’s palpitations, red flag symptoms, when to grab an echocardiogram and/or heart monitoring, and when certain “benign” ECG findings can be concerning. We’re joined by the director of cardiac electrophysiology at Temple University Hospital, Dr. Joshua Cooper (
@narrowQRS) for this episode chock full of cardiac pearls to make your heart skip a beat.
Credits
- Producer, Show Notes, Infographic, and Cover Art: Edison Jyang
- Producer: Paul Williams MD, FACP
- Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
- Reviewer: Molly Heublein MD
- Executive Producer: Beth Garbitelli
- Showrunner: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
- Editor: Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
- Guest: Joshua Cooper MD
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Show Segments
- Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
- Guest one-liner, Picks of the Week*
- Case from Kashlak
- Defining what the patient means by palpitations
- Common causes and misdiagnoses
- Red flag symptoms
- Exposures and medications to consider
- Sinus tachycardia
- Workup for palpitations
- Monitors
- Script for a negative workup
- Premature ventricular contractions
- Outro
