Author: John Usher / Editor: Jason Kendall / Reviewer: Mohamed Elwakil, Joshua Davison / Code: A1 / Published: 05/12/2022
Management of Cardiac Transplant Patients in the Emergency Department (ED).
After completing this session you will be able to:
- Describe the basic anatomy related to cardiac transplantation
- Recognise ECG changes related to cardiac transplantation
- Recognise the main complications of cardiac transplantation: graft rejection, infection and graft vasculopathy
- Differentiate graft vasculopathy from conventional coronary artery disease
- Manage sepsis in a transplant patient
- Assess and manage cardiac conditions not specifically related to transplantation.
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