2 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 27, 2017 Grouped Beating, What is it? This is a case seen by one of my great partners at Hennepin County Medical Center Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Ashley Strobel,…
Brugada patternCocaine2 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 25, 2017 A Patient with Cocaine Chest Pain and Prehospital Computer interpretation of ***STEMI*** A 20-something male drank heavily of ethanol and used cocaine, then was involved in a stressful verbal altercation, at which time he developed…
2 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 22, 2017 A very fast narrow complex tachycardia in an Infant Case 1 A 4 month old infant with known co-arctation of the aorta and reflux presented with respiratory distress. Here is the ECG: A Narrow…
4 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 20, 2017 Do patients with LBBB and STEMI, when reperfused, develop T-wave inversion (reperfusion T-waves)? The case below was contributed by Pendell Meyers, an EM G1 at Mt. Sinai (the case did not come from Mt. Sinai though!) Pendell is the lead…
8 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 10, 2017 Wide Complex Tachycardia and Cyanosis This case was sent by a former HCMC resident: A 20-something non-English speaking woman with a history of some sort of congenital heart defect…
2 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 6, 2017 LVH with secondary ST depression?? This was sent by Michael Macias (Twitter: @EMedCurious), a 4th year EM resident at Northwestern in Chicago. Case: An elderly man with end…
2 Min Read Steve SmithonJanuary 4, 2017 Why does this young male with chest pain have a tall R in V1, and lateral Q waves? This is another post written by Brooks Walsh, with some editing by Smith. Ken Grauer, who is truly an ECG guru, also had a hand in the…