Inferior MI? Or LVH?
A middle-aged male presented with acute chest pain: There is sinus rhythm. There is LVH by voltage in aVL, with what may appear to be…
Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG
This patient presented with severe DKA. Here is the ECG: Sinus tachycardia. What do you think? The computer and physician reader wrote:…
Grouped Beating, What is it?
This is a case seen by one of my great partners at Hennepin County Medical Center Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Ashley Strobel,…
A Patient with Cocaine Chest Pain and Prehospital Computer interpretation of ***STEMI***
A 20-something male drank heavily of ethanol and used cocaine, then was involved in a stressful verbal altercation, at which time he developed…
A very fast narrow complex tachycardia in an Infant
Case 1 A 4 month old infant with known co-arctation of the aorta and reflux presented with respiratory distress. Here is the ECG: A Narrow…
Do patients with LBBB and STEMI, when reperfused, develop T-wave inversion (reperfusion T-waves)?
The case below was contributed by Pendell Meyers, an EM G1 at Mt. Sinai (the case did not come from Mt. Sinai though!) Pendell is the lead…
Wide Complex Tachycardia and Cyanosis
This case was sent by a former HCMC resident: A 20-something non-English speaking woman with a history of some sort of congenital heart defect…
LVH with secondary ST depression??
This was sent by Michael Macias (Twitter: @EMedCurious), a 4th year EM resident at Northwestern in Chicago. Case: An elderly man with end…
Why does this young male with chest pain have a tall R in V1, and lateral Q waves?
This is another post written by Brooks Walsh, with some editing by Smith. Ken Grauer, who is truly an ECG guru, also had a hand in the…
Only the ECG Diagnoses Acute Coronary Occlusion. Do not be Fooled by a Negative High Sensitivity Troponin.
This case was sent by Peter Hammarlund, 2nd year Internal Medicine/Cardiology resident (and self-proclaimed ECG nerd) at Helsingborg…