echocardiogram

What happened to Damar Hamlin? What would make an athlete collapse? What is the most likely cause of sudden cardiac death? Should you have your kids wear chest protectors or get them elective Echocardiograms? Join me for a discussion on these topics. Don't forget to follow me for inside looks into healthcare. 

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss universal human rights and the vision of a world where every person can have a large collection of inalienable rights on which they could rely and what implications such a world would have on the quality of life. Right now, from which womb one emerges is the largest predictive factor in determining where one ends up in life, we would love to see this change, and rapidly. We again talk about food, diet, and the corporate contamination of what even food is. Lastly, we analyze the implications of misinformation leading to inaccurate beliefs, which leads to poor choices and actions. 

Why would doctors choose to spend time volunteering in another country and creating a nonprofit organization to save children’s lives overseas?

Dr. Tom Forsberg and Dr. Chad Hoyt are co-founders of Healing Hearts Vietnam. Dr. Forsberg is an emergency physician with Centra Health in Central Virginia.  He currently serves in four emergency departments throughout the region. Dr. Chad Hoyt specializes in advanced cardiovascular imaging and has been in partnership with Centra Health for the past sixteen years. He currently serves as the executive medical director of Centra’s Heart & Vascular Center, a busy four-hospital system with seven office locations and forty clinical providers. 

For nearly a decade, Dr. Forsberg and Dr. Hoyt have shared their expertise with Vietnam. During their trips, they became aware of the great need for cardiac surgeries in children. Upon returning from Vietnam, Dr. Forsberg led the charge to form Healing Hearts Vietnam which was established in 2015. Today, Healing Heart Vietnam provides financial assistance to allow children with congenital heart disease to access life-saving surgeries.

In this episode of "Heart to Heart with Anna," Dr. Tom Forsberg and Dr. Chad Hoyt share with Anna how they came to form a nonprofit organization to save the lives of children and adults in Vietnam with broken hearts. They share how certain devices have helped them identify who they can serve and how they can best help the people of Vietnam. They also share how people in the community can donate to their organization in a variety of ways.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Healing Hearts Vietnam website

Healing Hearts Vietnam Facebook page

Vietnamese Boat People episode with Amy M. Le

Vietnamese Boat People podcast

Please visit our Social Media and Podcast pages:

Apple Podcasts

Facebook

Instagram

MeWe

Twitter

YouTube

Website

Anna's Buzzsprout Affiliate Link (we both benefit if you sign up with Buzzsprout with my link - yay!) 

Anna's Buzzsprout Affiliate Link

Baby Blue Sound Collective

Social Media Pages:

Apple Podcasts
Facebook
Instagram
MeWe
Twitter
YouTube
Website

Dr Matthew Beech, Staff Specialist Anaesthetist at Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD Australia and Prof Jacqui Close, co-chair of ANZHFR discuss the role of transthoracic echo in hip fracture.

It’s the most common heart valve condition in the U.S., affecting around 8 million people: mitral valve prolapse.  It’s also known as click-murmur syndrome or floppy valve syndrome. What are the symptoms? How serious is it? And how is it diagnosed?

In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Fialkow explores this condition with cardiologist Socrates Kakoulides, M.D., medical director of the ambulatory diagnostic center at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida. 

This week we speak with the incredible Heart Doctor, Dr. Carley Saelinger about the physiological functions of the heart and all the intricacies of this organ. We learn about the symptoms, causes and medications for different diseases and more specifically about Pulmonary Hypertension, the one that stole our heart, Freddie. 

In this episode I cover pulmonary hypertension.

If you want to follow along with written notes on pneumothorax go to zerotofinals.com/pulmonaryhypertension/ or find the respiratory section in the Zero to Finals medicine book.

This episode covers the causes, presentation, investigation and management of pulmonary hypertension.

The audio in the episode was expertly edited by Harry Watchman.