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Getting into the chest x-ray (part 4): How pathology changes the grayscale

In this video, Julian Dobranowski, MD, will teach you how pathology can change the grayscale of the image.
19th Oct 2015 • 3m read

Getting into the chest x-ray (part 3): The importance of shapes and key landmarks

In this video from our Chest X-ray Essentials course, you will learn how shapes and structures are formed on a chest x-ray.
16th Oct 2015 • 4m read

Getting into the chest x-ray (part 2): The importance of overlap

If you want to become really good at reading chest x-rays, you need to know how borders are formed. In this video from our Chest X-ray Essentials course, you will learn how separate anatomical structures in the thorax interact to create an image.
15th Oct 2015 • 5m read

Getting into the chest x-ray (part 1): The importance of grayscale

In this video, you will learn how different tissue densities create different shades of gray on a chest x-ray. You’ll learn what air, soft tissue, bone, and metal look like on the x-ray and why that is important.
13th Oct 2015 • 3m read

Spironolactone and drug-resistant hypertension—video review

Drug-resistant hypertension is defined as high blood pressure that isn't responding to treatment with at least three blood pressure-lowering medications at their maximum dose. Up until now...
8th Oct 2015 • 2m read

The modified Valsalva maneuver—video review

Have you ever performed the good old Valsalva maneuver in your patients? Yes? Well then, STOP! Because there’s something that’s much more powerful and just as simple.
2nd Oct 2015 • 2m read

Common pacemaker problems (part 2): Undersensing

Undersensing can be a life-threatening problem in our pacemaker patients. It’s important that you recognize it when you see it on an ECG, but also that you know what the potential causes could be and how to solve them.
16th Sep 2015 • 4m read

Common pacemaker problems (part 1): Failure to capture

In today’s teaching video, pacemaker expert Kristian Webb from the UK will explain why it’s important for you to know more about failure to capture.
14th Sep 2015 • 5m read

Air versus oxygen in ST-elevation myocardial infarction - video review

Today’s study review summarizes the findings of a paper by Dion Stub et al. published in Circulation in June 2015. These authors looked at supplemental oxygen in the setting of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
31st Aug 2015 • 1m read

Diuretic resistance

This is the final video in our free teaching series on diuretics. Do you know what to do when diuresis is not sufficient?
19th Aug 2015 • 2m read