A woman in her 50s with acute chest pain
Written by Pendell Meyers. A woman in her 50s with no significant past medical history experienced acute anterior chest pain that woke her…
Acute coma, then Sudden PEA arrest in front of paramedics, with STEMI?
This is what the providers in the ED understood on patient arrival: Here is the written paramedic report available after all the events were…
Resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation. Should the cath lab be activated?
This patient was witnessed by bystanders to collapse. They started CPR. EMS arrived and found him in Ventricular Fibrillation…
Adding to the many faces of Hypokalemia….
These 2 cases came in on one shift: See the U-waves that are most prominent in V2 (which is the usual lead) and in V3-V6. = = = I…
A man in his early sixties with palpitations
Case submitted and written by James Tavornwattana, edits by Pendell Meyers and Steve Smith. A male in his 60s with diabetes presented to the…
See what happens when hyperacute T-waves are missed. And can you be lucky to have a cardiac arrest?
Written by Pendell Meyers, edits by Steve Smith. A man in his 60s with history of hypertension and MI 10 years ago (with PCI at that time) —…