Is it STEMI or Non STEMI? What you call it has consequences.
This 53 yo male with no cardiac history developed chest pain 12 hours prior to admission. It was coming and going, waxing and waning,…
ST elevation of early repolarization may vary with the rate
This 49 yo black male presented with sudden substernal non radiating pleuritic chest pain on the day prior to presentation. Here is the…
Cardiac arrest, LBBB with STEMI on the ECG, but no Acute Coronary Syndrome!
This 80 year old with a history of CABG had a cardiac arrest. He was resuscitated after fairly prolonged down time, but regained…
Weakness due to Bradycardia due to Sick Sinus with Sinoatrial block, with Ashmann’s phenomenon
This post is from last December, and shows sinoatrial block. A reader was puzzled by why one p-wave conducted and another did not. I had…
Respiratory Failure, Heart Failure, and Narrow Complex Tachycardia
A 60 yo female presented by ambulance in resp distress, requiring noninvasive ventilatory support. She had pulmonary edema and was near…
Subacute MI masked by a wide complex
This is a post I put up about a year ago and had forgotten about until I noticed that it was getting a little traffic recently (how does this…
Chest pain, tachycardia, diffuse ST elevation. What is the diagnosis?
First, I want you to see the ECG without a lot of clinical information: this 45 year old male presented with left chest pain: What…
Missed Acute MI, with coronary occlusion, evidence only by T-wave inversion in V2 and evolving ST depression in V3
A 39 yo otherwise healthy man with no risk factors was walking at the mall when he developed chest pressure. He presented to the ED…
What is the rhythm? Answer at the bottom.
An elderly woman presented with abdominal pain. Here is her ECG: This is easily mistaken for atrial flutter because the waves have a…