Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Instructive ECGs in Emergency Medicine Clinical Content

Associate Editors:
— Pendell Meyers & Ken Grauer (2018)
— Jesse McLaren & Emre Aslanger (2022)
— Willy Frick (2024)

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Resources


Protocols:

Abbott High Sensitivity Troponin Algorithm at Hennepin Healthcare


ECG Educational Videos (on various ECG-related Topics)

ECG Videos by Dr. Sam Ghali

Additional ECG-related Videos


Laddergrams (How to Read and/or Draw Laddergrams):

Laddergrams in Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog

More Laddergrams (from Dr. Ken Grauer’s ECG Blog)


LVH (ECG Criteria for LVH and LV “Strain” ):

ECG Criteria for LVH


Low Voltage (and an example of Shark Fin ST Elevation)

Causes of Low Voltage (and a Shark Fin example)

What is Voltage Discordance?


Books:

Dr. Smith’s Book: The ECG in Acute MI

— Doug Brunette’s Great Book: Extraordinary Cases in Emergency Medicine 

— Dr. Wang’s Atlas of EKG – the best

Great Ultrasound Textbook, Reardon on Echocardiography

— Critical Decisions in Acute Care electrocardiography — ACS section by Dr. Smith


Websites:

Life in the Fast Lane Best ECG Resources

— To test your rhythm interpretation skills: https://monitortech.org/rhythm-strip-practice.html

Pierre Taboulet’s Great French ECG site

— ECG Medical Training

— Life in the Fast Lane ECG library

EMS 12-Lead

Ken Grauer‘s excellent ECG Interpretation BLOG

— EM Crit

— hqmeded.com