
Episode 59: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with Vincent Sorrell
Critical Care Scenarios
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The Importance of Beta Blockers in Cardiology
At what point does the average ICU team need to get cardiology involved with these patients? Is this something that cardiology needs to be following or is this something that can largely be managed by people who understand how to manage heart failure, sort of garden variety, heart failure and shock? Yeah. I think on an individual basis, there will definitely be patients that are not responding to your initial treatment plan. As you get farther away from the things that you're comfortable with that should reply that it's probably time to get us involved. We do have some extra tools, right? When we start talking about mechanical circulatory support, the problem with cardiogenic shock today and the death rates
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