Dyspnea, resp failure, DNR/DNI, what to do?
79 yo patient with no known previous history of MI and a history of severe dementia presented with acute dyspnea, pulmonary edema, BP 110/70…
Cath lab activated. What do you think? (#2)
This 45 year old male called 911 for increasing SOB and CP over 2 weeks. His BP was 220/150. The medics did a prehospital ECG,…
Cath lab activated. What do you think?
This is a 47 year old African American man with substernal and right sided chest pain, worse with inspiration. EMS was called. Prehospital EKG…
Marked ST depression refractory to maximal medical therapy
This 62 year old man, heavy smoker, with no previous medical history, presented after 2.5 hours of substernal chest pressure. He…
Repost: Quiz: Is it LAD occlusion or benign early repolarization?
I posted this back in 2009. I was perusing old posts and had not seen this for a while.…
ST elevation in aVR, with widespread ST depression
This case and ECG was already posted here: https://drsmithsecgblog.com/2010/01/deep-and-widespread-st-depression.html However, because of a…
Is it pulmonary embolism?
This is a 41 year old male with severe asthma who barely avoided intubation. His troponin I returned at 0.130 ng/mL, and here is his…
Answer: pulmonary embolism. Now another, with ultrasound….
This 18 year old presented with syncope and tachycardia. Similar to the last case (the “quiz”), there is sinus tachycardia with…
This is a quiz. The ECG is nearly pathognomonic. Answer at bottom.
A 38 year old with chest pain and SOB: The answer can be found here (a different example of the same pathology, with explanation):…
Anterior MI: Ongoing STEMI, reperfused STEMI, or NonSTEMI?
An 80 yo male presented with chest pain onset 1130 AM. The prehospital ECG was reported to have some “ST depression”,…