Patient in Single Vehicle Crash: What is this ST Elevation, with Peak Troponin of 6500 ng/L?
A 30-something male was involved in a single vehicle crash and had multiple injuries. As a routine part of his critical trauma…
A man in his 70s with chest pain
Case submitted by Rachel Plate MD, written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 70s presented with chest pain which had started acutely at…
What do you think of this “Ventricular Bigeminy”?
Written by Bobby Nicholson MD, with edits by Meyers A woman in her 50s with past medical history of heart failure, prior stroke, atrial…
Sometimes even ST Elevation meeting criteria is not enough to be convincing
Written by Emre Aslanger. Emre is a new Editor of the Blog. He is an interventionalist in Turkey. A 50 something-year-old man with…
An elderly woman with acute vomiting, presyncope, and hypotension, and a wide QRS complex
Written by Pendell Meyers Family of an elderly woman with many comorbidities called EMS when she suddenly experienced shortness of…
I was shown this ECG without any information. What do you think?
I was shown this ECG; “Steve, what do you think of this?”: What is going on? I said: “This is pulse tapping artifact and a…
90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?
Case submitted and written by Mazen El-Baba MD, with edits from Jesse McLaren and edits/comments by Smith and Grauer A 90-year old with…
Opiate overdose, without chest pain or shortness of breath. Cognitive dissonance.
I was reading EKGs on the system and saw this one….. What did I put in as my interpretation? Interpretation: “Acute LAD occlusion…
I’m so sorry when medics get abused for activating the cath lab
Cortland Ashbrook from Spokane County, Washington, sent this message: Hey doctor Smith, I wondered if you’d give me your opinion on these ECG…