A man in his 40s with chest pain and “normal findings” per EMS machine read
Written by Pendell Meyers with edits by Smith. A man in his 40s called EMS for acute onset chest pain. EMS arrived and recorded vital signs…
Please take this important survey about which ECG findings Emergency Medicine clinicians believe warrant urgent senior medical review.
Dear Emergency Medicine Colleague, We invite you to complete a short anonymous online international survey about which ECG findings Emergency…
Hyperacute T-wave Quiz. 30 ECG cases.
This is a great quiz to assess your ability to: 1) Recognize hyperacute T-waves (HATW); — and 2) Assess for mimics. It was created by Dr.…
A 50-year-old with a normal ECG and troponin – Safe or Sorry? –so many learning points on this one
This post is written by Jack Cahill. He is an outstanding medical student and ECG reader. Some edits by Willy Frick and Smith. A woman in her…
A 30-something patient with chest pain, resolved after a “GI cocktail”
This was sent to me by an internal medicine MD who was looking back on the chart of one of his patients that he was seeing in his clinic. This…
First EKG? 2nd EKG?
This comes from one of my recent residency graduates who is very good at EKGs. A 52 year old male presented with chest pain. Here is the ECG:…
Chest pain in a 70-something male.
A former resident was working in triage when this ECG was handed to her, recorded on a 73 year old chest pain patient. — What do you think? —…
Pneumonia, hypotension, and large RV on bedside ultrasound. How to avoid the right sided death spiral?
This was sent by a former resident, who is now a junior attending. A patient presented in with clinical pneumonia and hypoxia, with…
Acute pulmonary edema. Why?
This is a 3rd case written by Dr. Ahmed Marai, who just graduated from Medical School in Iraq. A 65-year-old male presented to the ED at 5:50…
50 something male with acute chest pain
Written by Magnus Nossen . This ECG is from a man in his early 50s with a history of bilateral pulmonary embolism who presented with acute…