A middle-aged male with chest pain
A 40-something male presented with chest pressure. Here is his triage ECG: What do you think? The triage physician suspected that this was a…
What do you think of this elderly man with “possible seizure”?
Written by Pendell Meyers (with really great and thorough explanation of this finding by Ken Grauer). At my hospital, patients with any…
A 50ish Man whose Wide Tachycardia was Treated
=================================== MY Comment by KEN GRAUER, MD (5/22/2020): =================================== The ECG…
1 hour of CPR, then ECMO circulation, then successful defibrillation….
An elderly woman had sudden ventricular fibrillation. She was unable to be defibrillated but was cannulated and placed on ECMO in our…
Syncope and Chest Pressure, then an Unusual Bradycardia with Shock
This comment on this case is from Jerry Jones, and is so good that I am pasting it at the top of this post so everyone can read it:…
What do you think the echocardiogram shows in this case?
A 60-something man presented by EMS with 5 hours of fairly typical sounding substernal chest pain. Here is the EMS ECG: Obviously…
A man in his 50s with fever and shortness of breath
Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s with HTN, HLD, obesity, and restrictive lung disease presented with shortness of breath worsening…
Adding to the many faces of Hypokalemia….
These 2 cases came in on one shift: Patient 1 This patient was weak with a K of 2.4 mEq/L See the U-waves that are most prominent in V2 (which…
Looking through a stack of ECGs for a troponin study…..
And I came across this one while reading EKGs for a high sensitivity troponin study: what do you think? Normally, if one sees STE in aVL with…
Is it VT or SVT with Aberrancy?
Here is a classic ECG, presented and analyzed by Ken Grauer: Figure-1: The initial ECG in this case, obtained by the EMS team (See…