Where did the P waves go?
Written by Willy Frick I was reading through ECGs in the queue when I saw the following. What do you think of the rhythm? At first…
Serial ECGs for chest pain: at what point would you activate the cath lab?
Written by Jesse McLaren A healthy 75 year old developed 7/10 chest pain associated with diaphoresis and nausea, which began on…
46 year old with chest pain develops a wide complex rhythm — see many examples
Written by Colin Jenkins and Nhu-Nguyen Le with edits by Willy Frick and by Smith A 46-year-old male presented to the…
Three prehospital ECGs in patients with chest pain
Written by Magnus Nossen with Edits by Grauer and Smith The ECGs in today’s case are from 3 different patients all presenting with new-onset…
What does this ECG show?
Written by Pendell Meyers Try first to interpret the ECG without any clinical context: What do you think? Sinus rhythm with abnormal STE in…
Anterior OMI. What does the angiogram show?
Written by Willy Frick A 50 year old man with no medical history presented with acute onset substernal chest pain. His ECG is shown…
What do you think of these 2 ECGs in patients with chest pain? How to approach these?
What do you think of these 2 ECGs in patients with chest pain? How to approach these? ECG 1 (sent to my by Sam Ghali @EM_resus) ECG 2…
What diagnosis might you strongly suspect from the ECG in this patient with chronic progressive shortness of breath?
Written by Magnus Nossen ECG interpretation is largely based on pattern recognition. Today’s case provides another example of an ECG…
Resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation. Should the cath lab be activated?
This patient was witnessed by bystanders to collapse. They started CPR. EMS arrived and found him in Ventricular Fibrillation…