Acute Severe Pulmonary Edema and New LBBB, with Bedside Echo
A middle-aged woman had sudden pulmonary edema in the middle of the night. There was no known history of left bundle branch block.…
What is the infarct artery? (Complex analysis, in this case)
This case was put on Twitter by Elisha Targonsky, who has a nice EM blog (http://thechartreview.org). He provided it for posting here.…
Is this inferor STEMI?
I received this ECG from a reader: This is a very elderly female with chest discomfort and SOB. Our interpretation was STEMI or demand…
Read this ECG
What is the diagnosis here? The computer read was ****Acute STEMI****What is really going on? See Answer Below This is a trauma patient (motor…
Cold symptoms and bradycardia. What is this pre-excitation?
A young man presented to the ED for cough and runny nose and was bradycardic, so an ECG was recorded: There is sinus rhythm with complete AV…
A Young Woman with Chest Pressure and Subtle, Focal ST Elevation/Depression
A very healthy woman in her 20’s (who, however, is a heavy smoker) presented with 4 days of waxing and waning substernal chest pressure…
What happened after the PCI?
A middle-aged male with h/o CABG x 3, previous stents, and aortic valve and aortic root replacement presented primarily with headache, but…
SMACC-Chicago Program is Online!! Don’t miss this conference!
Social Media and Critical Care, Chicago: SMACC-Chicago. You’ve all heard about SMACC 2013 and SMACC Gold, the best EM and Critical Care…
18 hours of intermittent chest pressure
A male in his 60’s with no previous cardiac history complained of substernal chest pain intermittently for 18 hours. It has more…
EP Report back on this case: a very fast narrow complex rhythm followed by a very fast wide complex
This was a very interesting case: A Very Fast Regular Narrow Complex, Followed by an Equally Fast Regular Wide Complex It had a very fast…