The Right Ventricle: The Big Breakup

Let’s pick up where we left off: RV failure caused by increased pulmonary vascular resistance. A sign she’s about to leave you: Right sided heart strain. When your girlfriend has had enough and she’s about to Dear John you, it’s called a crappy day. When the RV has had enough pressure and is about to throw in the […]
Calcium Chloride

Talking about calcium really gives legitimacy to the “He needs some milk” video and memes to follow. Calcium is an essential component to our treatment plan of calcium channel blocker overdose, beta-blocker overdose, hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia, and hypermagnesemia. Fun fact! 1G of calcium chloride is approximately equivalent in calcium content to 1 cup of 2% milk. […]