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…
A Patient with Ischemic symptoms and a Biventricular Pacemaker
This case was sent by Gary Giorgio from Summa Health Emergency Medicine Residency in Akron, Ohio. He frequently sends very…
Altered Mental Status with Agitation and Tachycardia
This was originally posted on May 8, 2014. It was one of the FOAM posts used to evaluate the ALiEM AIR Rating for FOAMed resources, just…