My Very Smart Colleagues are Getting Very Good at Diagnosing Subtle Occlusion
My very smart colleagues are getting very good at this! A male in his 40’s with a significant history of coronary disease and stents…
ST Elevation: Inferior MI or Early Repol? Ultrasound Speckle Tracking Can Help.
Rob Reardon, our ultrasound director, showed me this ECG of a 50 yo with chest pain he had seen a few days prior: I said “Early…
60-something with Chest Pain, resolved upon arrival to the ED
A 60-something male called 911 for chest pain of less than one hour duration. He arrived in the ED pain free and had this ECG recorded:…
Abnormal ST-T in V1-V3. What is it? Many interesting and informative twists to this case.
A middle-aged woman with a history of CAD and stents, but also a history of several subsequent visits for non-cardiac chest pain, called 911…
Resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation: what is the ECG Diagnosis?
A reader (someone in training) sent me this ECG, and asked for my interpretation. Clinical info: “The patient was found down…
10 Cases of Inferior Hyperacute T-waves
In the last post, I showed: Ten (10) Examples of Hyperacute T-waves in Lead V2 (a few in V3), due to acute LAD occlusion Today, 10…
Ten (10) Examples of Hyperacute T-waves in Lead V2 (a few in V3), due to acute LAD occlusion
Thursday’s case, read by 60,000 people, provoked a bit of anguish among readers because they weren’t all sure they would recognize…
A 37 year old woman with Chest Pain
I have put up one post with 10 similar cases here. Don’t miss the comments at the bottom! I was sent this ECG with the following…
A Perfect Resuscitation Saves a Patient with Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
This was contributed by Dr. Johanna Moore, one of my Hennepin Colleagues who researches CPR, along with Keith Lurie and Demetris Yannopoulos.…
STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes
A late middle-aged man presented with one hour of chest pain. He had significant history of CAD with CABG x5, and repeat CABG x 2 as well as…