Sudden Severe SOB and ST Segment Elevation: What is the Diagnosis and Treatment?
A middle aged man with history of MI presented by EMS for the sudden onset of difficulty breathing. Prehospital, he was in respiratory…
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I don’t usually deviate from ECGs and Cardiology, but I must for this. My partner, Albert Tsai, our director of pediatrics, has written…
2 weeks of chest pain, weakness. Presents with tachycardia.
A middle-aged male with no significant past history complained of chest pain for 2 weeks. He stated that it was intermittent and there…
A very elderly woman with a pacemaker and minimal symptoms
This was a very elderly woman with a pacemaker and minimal symptoms: What are these broad complexes superimposed on the native QRS? Are…
Right Bundle Branch Block. What else?
This is complementary to a recent previous post. A dialysis patient presented with pedal edema. As a screen for hyperkalemia, an…
A young healthy male with epigastric pain and tachycardia
A young previously healthy man with no past medical history presented with a complaint of epigastric pain for a few days. He had no…
What is the culprit vessel?
A patient presented with chest pain and had this ECG: There is obvious ischemic ST elevation with reciprocal ST depression. What is the…
This ECG is NOT Pathognomonic of Brugada Syndrome
This was contributed by a friend and colleague from a Yale affiliated hospital, Brooks Walsh. Here is Brooks’ case I had a great…
Is this Saddleback a STEMI??
I saw this Middle-aged patient with no previous cardiac disease who presented with worrisome substernal chest pain: Sinus rhythm with…
Epigastric Abdominal Pain and Vomiting
No details important to the diagnosis are left out, but the details are intentionally vague to preserve anonymity. The details need not be…