#320 Palpitations with Dr. Joshua Cooper

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

When should you fold or Holt onto your cards for palpitations? Learn about properly characterizing a patient’s palpitations, red flag symptoms, when to grab an echocardiogram and/or heart monitoring, and when certain “benign” ECG findings can be concerning. We’re joined by the director of cardiac electrophysiology at Temple University Hospital, Dr. Joshua Cooper (@narrowQRS) for this episode chock full of cardiac pearls to make your heart skip a beat.

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Credits

Producer, Show Notes, Infographic, and Cover Art: Edison Jyang
Producer: Paul Williams MD, FACP
Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
Reviewer: Molly Heublein MD
Executive Producer: Beth Garbitelli
Showrunner: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
Editor: Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
Guest: Joshua Cooper MD

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Show Segments

Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
Guest one-liner, Picks of the Week*
Case from Kashlak
Defining what the patient means by palpitations
Common causes and misdiagnoses
Red flag symptoms
Exposures and medications to consider
Sinus tachycardia
Workup for palpitations
Monitors
Script for a negative workup
Premature ventricular contractions
Outro

Transcript

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0:20.5	and let's know.
0:32.2	Paul let's just get right into this episode.
0:35.1	We had a fantastic conversation tonight on palpitations Paul.
0:39.8	How did it take us this long to get to palpitations?
0:43.4	I mean it's only been what five, six years, something like that.
0:46.1	It was five, six years.
0:47.8	Yeah, it's going six years probably by the time this airs will be cool.
0:50.5	Close to our six anniversary of releasing a first episode.
0:54.6	So this of course is the curbsiders.
0:56.7	I'm Dr. Matthew Wato here with my great friend Dr. Paul Nelson Williams.
1:01.2	And Paul, we had a big show tonight before we get to it.
1:05.0	Remind them what we do on the show and can you introduce our producer slash cohost for
1:10.1	this episode?
1:11.7	Happy to as per you, Matt, we are the internal medicine podcast views expert interviews
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