• Killip Classification for patients with Acute MI
  • Class I - no evidence of heart failure
  • Class II - findings consistent with mild to moderate heart failure
  • Class III - overt pulmonary edema
  • Class IV - Cardiogenic shock
  
  
  Higher Killip class on presentation = greater subsequent mortality
  
  

  Posted 09/21/16 10:15:21 AM by Anna Krigel

• Major echocardiographic signs of tamponade
  • Chamber collapse
    • Diastolic RA collapse
    • Diastolic RV collapse
    • LA/LV compression
  • Respiratory variation in volume and flows
  • IVC plethora
  
  

  Posted 09/21/16 10:20:54 AM by Anna Krigel

• Mechanical complications of Acute MI
  • LV free wall rupture - typically within 5 days of MI
  • Interventricular septum rupture - typically 3-5 days after MI
  • Acute mitral regurgitation - from papillary muscle dysfunction, LV dilatation or aneurysm, or chordal rupture
  
  

  Posted 09/21/16 11:02:51 AM by Anna Krigel

• The Enduring Value of the Killip Classification (JAMA)
  
  

  Posted 09/21/16 11:08:01 AM by Anna Krigel

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