An elderly male with acute chest pain
Written by Magnus Nossen The patient in today’s case is a 90-something male with a medical history of prostate cancer and chronic AFib,…
Acute Chest pain, 2 years in a row.
A man in his 30s presented for similar symptoms (acute substernal chest pain) twice, each visit one year apart. Visit #1 History including…
Rapid SVT, diagnosis?
A 53 year old man with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and multiple myeloma called EMS with chest discomfort and palpitations. When paramedics…
ECG interpretation can keep you out of the courtroom. And “viral infection” by itself is not an explanation for dyspnea
This case was sent by Eric Funk of the Expert Witness Newsletter https://expertwitness.substack.com/p/death-after-ed-visit-for-covid A…
Several days of Shortness of breath. Other than the obvious atrial flutter, can PMCardio AI make the crucial diagnosis on the ECG?
A 70-something male with no significant past history presented to a primary care clinic with some progressive SOB over weeks, much worse over…
Found down, CPR, pulse regained. Here is the ED ECG. What is it?
A man in his 60s was found down in the park. Bystanders initiated CPR, but when EMS arrived he had a pulse and it was not clear that he had…
Chest pain and a very wide RBBB
I was texted this ECG by a reader without any info: What do you think? The reader’s interpretation was this: “Patient…
Five Lessons from a Misleading ECG
This was written by Emerson Floyd, with comments by Smith I first saw this this ECG (#1) when I woke up to a text message a fellow EM…
A very elderly woman with sudden severe chest pain radiating to her back
An 89-year-old woman with a history of hypertension only on propranolol and hydrochlorothiazide presented by ambulance with sudden onset of…
An 80-year-old with chest pain and a wide QRS. Should you give thrombolytics?
Written by Magnus Nossen Today’s patient is an 80-year-old man with stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD), but not yet receiving…