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EMCrit 259 – Cardiogenic Shock — The Next Level & Mechanical Circulatory Support with Jenelle Badulak

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The Role of Echo in Cardiogenic Shock

The echo itself is very helpful to understand is this LV failure, right ventricular failure or biview failure. And then the other two things are numbers from right heart cath that can be really helpful. So these are the cardiac power index and the pulmonary artery pulsaticity index. These are numbers where we can get an idea of sort of classify the overall degree of ventricular instability with this cardiac power index. Janelle: Thanks so much for having me on your show today.

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