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…
A young woman with vomiting
A 20-something presented with vomiting. An ECG was recorded: HR is 101 The prior ECG was normal. The computerized QT measurement was 353 ms,…
Cardiac Arrest. What does the ECG show? Also see the bizarre Bigeminy.
A 60-something woman presented after a witnessed cardiac arrest. CPR was started immediately. EMS arrived and found her in a wide…
Another Shark Fin. With a twist.
I was reading stacks of ECGs for a study, without any clinical information. I came across this one and immediately recognized it and knew the…
Guess the culprit with ST Elevation in posterior leads
A middle aged man had off and on chest pain for 2 weeks, then 2 hours of more severe and constant pain. Here was his ED ECG, which was…