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A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
A Visual Guide to Cardiac Critical Care
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Great simplified content that really hammers in the basics. Arrived on time and in great condition. Money well spent
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2026-02-24
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book is a wonderful aid. 5 stars ⭐️
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2026-01-28
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I flipped through beautiful illustrations. I bought this as a gift. Very interesting facts for someone that understands the ins and outs of it all. Lovely purchase.
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2026-02-27
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$65 feels steep but I always enjoy supporting small creators. The content is thorough, it’s laid out well, and easy to read. Solid addition to my mountain of knowledge I’m collecting as a last semester nursing student.
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2026-02-21
D**e M**n
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Amazing resource! So helpful! The format is perfect. Also the customer service is 10/10! The first time I ordered it, it never arrived (I think the mailman brought it to the wrong address) so they sent me a replacement book for free very quickly! Thank you so much!
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2026-02-20
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Content clarity: I’ve been a Critical Care nurse and Educator for 42 years. Thus book takes a very clear, creative approach. It reminds me of mind mapping. I love it!
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2026-02-20
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Love the pictures im a visual learner and this is helping so much!
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2026-02-13
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Extremely impressed with this book. It is everything I needed as a new nurse in the CICU.
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2026-02-05
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The book provides a great visual view and description of things you need to know in the ICU. It is a get started book so if you are looking for depth, this is not it. If you want to get an understanding of what is happening, this book is well done.
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2026-01-31
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This is a fantastic guide! I have literally been spreading this around my CCU and everyone has been able to pull something from it! Top job!
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2026-01-20
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Great material if you work in CVICU!
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2026-01-23
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Very easily understood. Good review.
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2025-12-04
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Great graphics
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2026-02-05
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2026-01-30
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Amazing book!
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2026-01-17
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The cardiac ICU can be overwhelming, but this book can help! Don't spend months or YEARS fearing the cardiac ICU!
With over 60 pages of visual content specifically directed at cardiac critical care, this is the resource you have been searching for to orient yourself to the cardiac ICU! Whether you're a nurse, resident, or advanced practice professional, this book is designed to strip the confusion that comes from cardiac critical care.
Why get this book?
·Non-intimidating presentation; we strip away the numbers and diagrams and get to visualize and simplify the complex and often intimidating topics
·Easy-to-read Visual teaching to make sense of complex topics
·Cardiac-specific information as opposed to generalized text
Created by a cardiac surgery PA, this guide offers a non-intimidating breakdown of the fundamentals of cardiac critical care. Designed for visual learning, this colorful guide acts as a go-to resource on information that focuses on cardiac intensive care topics. These topics include:
·Ventilators
·EKGs
·Pacing
·Hemodynamic Monitoring
·Swan-Ganz Catheter interpretation
·Advanced hemodynamics
·Mechanical Circulatory supportincluding Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps, Impellas, and ECMO
·Management of cardiac disease in a critical care setting
·And MORE
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I got a swan to play with! This video we discussed a Swan-Ganz catheter a little bit about how it works. What components are involved in the Swan-Ganz catheter? What makes us Swan-Ganz catheter special from other central line catheters. You’re not gonna be able to escape a Swan-Ganz catheter if you’re working in the cardiac ICU.
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When I was younger, it was difficult for me to understand how an Impella could increase coronary Perfusion. Understanding how our balloon pump increases coronary Perfusion was intuitive. But Impella was less obvious to me. This is because I had a misunderstanding of a physiological concept known as coronary perfusion pressure and how we calculate it. Once I understood this formula. It was obvious how it impeller increases, coronary perfusion by reducing the LVEDP so even though an impeller may not directly increase aortic pressure at aggressively as a bloom pump does it can significantly increase the coronary perfusion, flow and pressure. #CVICU #cvicunurse #criticalcare #impella
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I’m so excited to announce the launch of my new book! I tried to think of all the concepts that I would try to teach someone that I was training to be able to work at a cardiac critical care environment. This book is packed with all the information that I could think of that would be fundamental to function in cardiac critical care. It covers topics such as disease diseases and mechanical support, ventilators and more. If you would like to support me, it’s available now! #entrepreneur #crna #cticu #cvicu #cardiacsurgery
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I’ll probably have to find a more creative way to demonstrate this, but this is the basics of how a swan functions essentially by understanding where the pressure is are high and why the pressures are low. You can identify where the problems are in cardiac function. There are other things that go with a spine such as Thermo dilution and continuous mixed venous reading that can also give you ideas of cardiac output, however, the principles of understanding how one functions are by understanding where you’re getting your pressures and what those pressures mean.
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When people first see Impella consoles, they can seem rather intimidating because why would you need to see all these waveforms but in reality and plot forms aren’t that complicated the information they give us gives us a better subjective idea of what’s going on inside the left ventricle, but there are a few important things that you should take away from Impella away forms. One thing I don’t discuss in this video is how you can use LV forms to give you an idea of whether or not you’re gonna have a suction event and what exactly kind of kind of suction you’re having. But if there’s one thing I wanna have taken away from this, it’s the importance of the motor current or the green wave form and why we need to see away for consistently. Especially when we have positional arms this is the one thing that my eyes go to personally whenever I’m most concerned about the position of an Impella. ##cvicu##nursebookrecommendation##impella##cardiaccriticalcare
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Replying to @amyd870 a simple answer to an elevated pulmonary pressure is to lower the pulmonary artery pressure! All joking aside, the real answer is you have to address the problem if you want to address the pressure. Sometimes the answer is not clear or simple and depends on a lot of clinical context.
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Say it with me PRELOAD IS NOT JUST VOLUME. What I mean when I say this is that preload is not solely a matter of giving volume or removing volume. When we say “optimize preload” it can mean things like restoring atrial synchrony or optimizing heart rate.
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This book would make a phenomenal gift! Written by a cardiac surgery PA this book is a visual guide to the cardiac critical care unit. If you know someone who’s gonna be working in the ICU specifically in the cardiac ICU, this book is a can’t miss find! We’ve sold out quickly so far and we’ve had amazing feedback from some phenomenal people.  With your physician, assistant, ICU nurse nurse practitioner or medical student. I truly think that this is one of the few resources out there that can quickly summarize in a non-intimidating fashion, the necessary things you need to understand to function well in the cardiac critical care unit.
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Replying to @Hannah Han would CVICU nurses find this helpful? My answer is ABSOLUTELY!! I’ll explain how my book is different from typical ICU texts and what we cover and don’t cover
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When you have a great ECMO team, they’ll mention something like Harley Quinn syndrome or North south syndrome on ECMO when I first heard about this I didn’t quite understand what they were talking about especially everyone’s emphasis on getting a right radial arterial line went on VA ECMO because VA ECMO was often placed an emergency settings. You frequently will have femoral cannulation and that means that Blood is going retrograde or backwards from where it usually would go up the deepening aorta and then to the brain and the arms Respectively however, if you know your anatomy, you know that the head vessels would start with the left common carotid, which is going to be after the left of clavi when you’re going retrograde from the descending aorta that means that there’s a chance that you’re not gonna get that auctioned blood from the pump up to the brain so it’s important to recognize the syndrome and addressed appropriately either by increasing your flows or reducing your cardiac output if that’s appropriate or reducing an impala if you have it on there or any even a better option would be the changer cannulation strategy. #ECMO #CVICU
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If you’re seeing this video, we are officially restocked! The enthusiasm and positive reactions I’ve been having to this book have been overwhelming and greatly appreciated this 60 page plus book is my fully illustrated guide to what I think is fundamental to being able to understand cardiac critical care. #entrepreneur #smallbusiness
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I wrote this book because I legitimately could not find another book that does what this book does. A visual guide to cardiac critical care is exactly what it sounds like. I wanted to write a book that was not intimidating. I wanted to write a book that gave you the understanding of fundamental knowledge that is specific to cardiac critical care. I did not go out to write a 500 page textbook I did not go out to write a general ICU book I felt like you could find a Bajillion of those. I wanted to write something that I felt did not exist.
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When I first started treating EMO patients, I wasn’t familiar with the idea of chatter. Thankfully, there was a great cast involved with our ECMO team and we understood this TV usually a volume issue. However, chatter can be due to many things it could be an issue with the placement of the cannula. It can be a problem with Venus return due to the patient bearing down. It could be a issue with excessive flow. There are many different causes of chatter however, the issue is typically related to drainage.
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What is an Impella? Big shoutout to @The Hemodynamics Dude  for sending me a copy of his book! #nurseeducation #icunurse #cvicunurse #flightnurse #flightmedicine
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Pulse this paradox is an interesting phenomenon to witness on an arterial line and it’s one of those things that I didn’t Widdis for a long time and then I had like three days where I noticed pulse paradox is on the airline. I was jumping up and down and showing all of our nurses in the unit. It’s one of the more classic signs when you’re trying to evaluate tamponade and you need an arterial line to be able to check it.
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The systems are involved with entry, aortic balloon pumps have evolved to the point where we can trust the timing pretty frequently with how the automatic settings are in place. But it’s still important to understand what can go wrong whenever an aortic balloon pump is improperly timed. In this video we first discussed how a properly functioning balloon pump works when it’s properly timed and then we discussed the problems that come up when you have improperly, timed balloon pumps.
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Electrical alternators is a result of the heart swinging inside of the pericardium and it’s often the result of a large pericardial effusion and sometimes tamponade. It’s an interesting phenomenon to catch on an EKG and it’s associated with a increase and decrease that alternates for the QRS complex complexes.
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Replying to @turtleguy60 central ECMO has a lot of advantages but one major disadvantage.
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PFO‘s in the investigation of PFO‘s are fairly common thing in the cardiac unit. The way we’d look for a PFO is by doing a bubble study and the goal standard is utilize a TEE or a transesophageal Echo however, sometimes people will use TTE or a transthoracic Echo to do a quick study to see if they can find a PFO. Catching a PFO is important because people who have strokes out of nowhere often times can have a PFO they didn’t know about this is because Clyde that would normally be caught in the lungs and not caused any kind of significant issues become imply that go up to the brain and become strokes.
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Well I didn’t get into medicine to do a bunch of math. Sometimes math tells a more concise and beautiful story than words and pictures can describe. In this case, we discuss the two most important equations or rather two of the most important equations in cardiac critical care, the cardiac output equation in the auction Delivery equation. A cardio output equation is basically saying that cardiac output is equal to stroke volume multiplied by heart rate and a beautifully demonstrates a simple concept when it comes to cardiac output they can quickly get more complicated, but we won’t to discuss that right now. Then the auction delivery equation demonstrates a relationship between cardiac output, hemoglobin and oxygenation in the contribution of delivery of oxygen. The word oxygenation is a somewhat controversial term in this case because the largest contribution to auction Delivery is in fact the saturation of oxygen and hemoglobin the partial pressure of auction is the auction that is dissolved in a blood and it actually has a very, very small real world contribution to auction delivery. However, this is one of those numbers that often can be chased by providers trying to improve auction delivery. By understanding these equations, we can see what the real drivers of auction delivery in the body are. This video is for entertainment and education purposes only that is not medical advice. The book linked to this video is my own book a visual guide to cardiac critical care.
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