This patient has a severe electrolyte abnormality. Can you tell what it is? (Not hypokalemia)
This patient has a severe electrolyte abnormality. Can you tell from the ECG what it is? IMPRESSION by computer and physician overread:…
Repost: 63 minutes of ventricular fibrillation, followed by shock. What is going on?
This was published back on Sept 19, 2014 and I came across it again. It is very instructive, so I am reposting today. A…
Diffuse T-wave inversions and a very long QT
This ECG was texted to me and I read it while mountain biking. My response was “takotsubo”. ECG 1 There are diffuse T-wave…
Syncope and ST Elevation on the Prehospital ECG
A 75 yo with h/o CAD, CABG, and HFrEF presented after a syncopal episode. There was no prodrome and no associated symptoms such as SOB…
A 60-something has chest tightness, palpitations, and ST depression V1-V3
A 60-something has chest tightness, palpitations. Charts showed a history of some mitral regurgitation and an enlarge left atrium, as…
Serial ECGs highly suspicious for inferior OMI: Give thrombolytics prior to transfer for PCI?
One of my former residents texted this info to me with the EKGs: “I have here a 50 something-year-old female with multiple stents who…
A very fast wide complex tachycardia
A 60-something patient presented by EMS with non-specific symptoms. He had a very rapid rhythm that was not converted by 6 mg, then 12…
50-something with STEMI and hypotension: What is the infarct artery?
A 50-something woman presented with chest pain, midsternal, 9/10. Her BP was 93/58, pulse 110. Here is her ECG: What is the infarct…
A Young Woman with Regular Narrow Complex Tachy at both 160 and 240
A young woman presented with palpitations, chest pressure, SOB and weakness. She had a rapid rate and BP of 140 systolic. She was in no…
A middle-aged male with chest pain
A 40-something male presented with chest pressure. Here is his triage ECG: What do you think? The triage physician suspected that this was a…