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Thursday, April 12, 2012
What's This? II
Challenge: What do each of the four arrows point to in this patient who is in the cardiac intensive care unit for acute MI and cardiogenic shock?
The curved arrow is an intraaortic balloon pump, the white arrow is a Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter, the black arrow is an endotrachael tube, and the black arrowhead is a nasogastric tube.
What’s This? II
ReplyDeleteThe curved arrow is an intraaortic balloon pump, the white arrow is a Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter, the black arrow is an endotrachael tube, and the black arrowhead is a nasogastric tube.
Sources: UpToDate; radiographics.rsna.org.