ST elevation (Saddleback), is it STEMI?
This 56 year old male presented with atypical chest pain and left arm numbness off and on for one week, worse on the day of presentation:…
Inferior ST Elevation: what is the Diagnosis?
You can read this post here, or watch a video presentation of it: https://hqmeded.com/inferior-st-elevation-2/ I was handed this ECG, without…
Fusion Beat During Supraventricular Tachycardia: No criterion is absolutely accurate in differentiating wide complex tachycardia
Yesterday, I posted this case of wide complex tachycardia, and some steps to help in differentiating VT from SVT with aberrancy. One step was…
Wide Complex Tachycardia: Ventricular Tachycardia or Supraventricular Tachycardia with Aberrancy?
Before we start, here is another popular post on wide complex tachycardia. What is the ECG rhythm diagnosis? Wide complex regular tachycardia…
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…