CIRCULATION STUDIO FIELD GUIDE
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267 guides and reference entries
A
- Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Acute Myocarditis
- Acute Severe Aortic Regurgitation
- Acute Severe Mitral Regurgitation
- Amiodarone · IV
- Amyl nitrite
- Anaphylactic Shock
- Antiarrhythmics, pacing & electrical treatment
- Aortic valve prosthesis
- Are calculations required in Quiz?
- Are drug effects immediate and clinically timed?
- Assumptions, validation scope & known limits
- Atrial Bigeminy
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial Fibrillation + Complete Heart Block · Junctional Escape
- Atrial Fibrillation + Complete Heart Block · Ventricular Escape
- Atrial Flutter
- Atrial Paced · Ventricular Paced
- Atrial Sensed · Ventricular Paced
- Atrial Tachycardia
- Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
- Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia
- Atropine
B
C
- Calculation order & shared state
- Can I combine diseases and valve lesions?
- Can I create a custom state without GPT?
- Can I link someone directly to a help answer?
- Can I use help reveals without a mouse?
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Catheter progression, pullback & provocative signs
- Central versus peripheral pressure & recording artifacts
- Chest tube
- Chronic Severe Aortic Regurgitation
- Chronic Severe Mitral Regurgitation
- Complete Heart Block · Junctional Escape
- Complete Heart Block · Ventricular Escape
- Constrictive Pericarditis
D
E
F
G
H
- Handgrip
- Heart Failure · Preserved Output
- Heart sounds, clicks, snaps & splitting
- High-Grade Atrioventricular Block
- High-Output Heart Failure
- How are Quiz, Cases and Play different?
- How can I explore all three cardiac-cycle diagrams on mobile?
- How can I keep the simulator responsive?
- How can I run a focused teaching session?
- How do antiarrhythmics, cardioversion and defibrillation work here?
- How do diseases change Lead II, V1 and the twelve-lead ECG?
- How do I apply and compare an intervention?
- How do I apply temporary transvenous pacing?
- How do I change the sweep duration?
- How do I change valve severity?
- How do I change ventricular rate?
- How do I compare normal, disease and intervention PV loops?
- How do I compare S1 and S2 splitting?
- How do I demonstrate early or late balloon inflation?
- How do I demonstrate pericardiocentesis?
- How do I demonstrate the post-PVC response in AS or HOCM?
- How do I explore the synchronized ECG, Wiggers and PV loop?
- How do I identify inspiration and expiration?
- How do I inspect an individual waveform segment?
- How do I inspect RV and LV pressure traces?
- How do I inspect the Valsalva response graph?
- How do I make ECG complexes easier to see?
- How do I open and pause the twelve-lead ECG?
- How do I open and pin Clinical controls?
- How do I open and pin Interventions?
- How do I open the ventilator?
- How do I perform the thermodilution demonstration?
- How do I play The Crimson Circuit?
- How do I read the hemodynamic summary table?
- How do I relieve tension pneumothorax?
- How do I remove treatments without changing the disease?
- How do I reset the whole simulator?
- How do I reveal case data progressively?
- How do I select a disease state?
- How do I show or hide individual tracings?
- How do I show overdamping or underdamping?
- How do I superimpose live traces?
- How do I unlock bonuses and find Easter eggs?
- How do I use Academic Halfday?
- How do I use Foundations?
- How do I use the controls on a phone or tablet?
- How do I use the estimated Fick panel?
- How do I use the LV-to-aorta pullback?
- How do I use the two-axis perfusion/congestion map?
- How do I use V-A ECMO and the Impella models?
- How do I view different ECG variants?
- How do points and XP work in The Crimson Circuit?
- How do PVR and SVR sliders work?
- How do room air, nasal oxygen, NIPPV and intubation affect the display?
- How do sedative infusions affect the simulator?
- How do the cycle figures show tamponade interdependence?
- How do the experimental valve procedures work?
- How does ASD affect the respiratory teaching pattern?
- How does Search Pathology work?
- How does the cardiac-output slider interact with the other controls?
- How does the chest X-ray respond to the model?
- How does the heart schematic reflect rhythm and stroke volume?
- How does the Help search work?
- How is Quiz generated and scored?
- How the simulator works
- Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
- Hypovolemic Shock
I
J
K
L
M
- Measured summaries, units & rounding
- Mechanical support: flow paths, pressure & pulsatility
- Metoprolol
- Midazolam
- Milrinone
- Mitral clip
- Mitral Valve Prolapse
- Mitral valve prosthesis
- Mobitz I (Wenckebach)
- Mobitz II
- Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
- Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia
- Multiple diseases: dominance, addition & constraints
N
O
P
- Pacemaker-Mediated Tachycardia
- Passive leg raise
- PEEP, transmural pressure & cardiopulmonary loading
- Pericardiocentesis
- Phenylephrine
- Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
- Postural maneuvers & Valsalva phases
- Pre-Excited Atrial Fibrillation
- Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension
- Preserved
- Pressure waveforms: atria, ventricles & arteries
- Procainamide · IV
- Propofol
R
S
- Sedation, sympathetic reserve & respiratory depression
- Septic Shock
- Severe Aortic Stenosis
- Severe Mitral Stenosis
- Severe Pulmonic Regurgitation
- Severe Pulmonic Stenosis
- Severe Right Ventricular Failure
- Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- Severe Tricuspid Stenosis
- Shunt network, Qp/Qs & oxygen mixing
- Sinus Arrest
- Sinus Arrhythmia
- Sinus Pauses
- Sinus Rhythm
- Squat
- Stand from squat
- Surgical tricuspid valve
- Synchronized DCCV
T
V
W
- What are ART, Ao, Ao+ and IAB?
- What are the a, c, x, x′, v and y features?
- What are the model’s main limitations?
- What are Wood units and dyn·s/cm⁵?
- What do RA, RV, PA, PAWP, Ao, LV and LVEDP mean?
- What do the IVC image and JVP bar show?
- What do the seven cardiac-cycle stages mean in this view?
- What do the systolic and diastolic sliders do?
- What does “Intervention has resulted in further instability” mean?
- What does Reset Vitals change?
- What does the pleth waveform represent?
- What does the Wiggers diagram show?
- What happens when I press Pause?
- What is Circulation Studio?
- What is in Baseline vitals?
- What is saved when I leave or reload?
- What is the difference between V pacing, A-sensed/V-paced, A-paced/V-paced and CRT?
- What should I compare before and after treatment?
- When are pulmonary and systemic flows separated?
- Where are mechanisms, routes, doses and contraindications?
- Where are S3, S4, opening snap and systolic click shown?
- Where are the complete case history and discussion points?
- Where are the Gorlin and Hakki calculations?
- Where are the loading maneuvers?
- Where are the references and complete source list?
- Where are the teaching cases?
- Where can I find normal reference values?
- Where can I see prosthetic valves and Impella?
- Where do Foundations, Practice, The Lab and the other sections lead?
- Where do I add ASD, PAPVR, PDA, VSD or Eisenmenger physiology?
- Where do I select a rhythm?
- Where do I select the balloon pump and assist ratio?
- Where is LVEDP shown, and why is it different from LV Dia?
- Where is the ECG interpretation?
- Where is the restriction-versus-constriction comparison?
- Where is the simultaneous femoral artery comparison?
- Where should I begin?
- Why are aortic and arterial-line pressures different?
- Why are pressures rounded, and how precise are the calculations?
- Why are some controls unavailable in a teaching case?
- Why can PAWP, PADP and LVEDP differ?
- Why can the summary CO, Fick and thermodilution differ?
- Why did I open at the welcome, normal baseline or a disease?
- Why do arterial and PV traces look different on ECMO or Impella?
- Why do case numbers differ from peaks on a moving trace?
- Why do settings and measured numbers differ?
- Why do summary numbers become crimson and bolder?
- Why does acute MR, acute AR or tamponade select cardiogenic shock?
- Why does each pressure tracing have its own scale?
- Why does the heart rate differ from the rate slider or pacing setting?
- Why is a tracing or panel missing?
- Why is the filling-pressure slider different from the table wedge?
- Why is the pleth weak or absent during mechanical support?
- Wiggers, cycle timing & gradient overlays