Acute Pulmonary Edema, Respiratory Failure, and LBBB
A man in his 70’s called 911. When medics arrived, he was in extremis with respiratory failure, able only to say he has a history…
Interesting new paper: in this study, even interventionalists had a hard time differentiating non-ischemic ST elevation from STEMI
Reference: Tran V, Huang HD, Diez JG, et al. Differentiating ST-elevation myocardial infarction from nonischemic ST-elevation in…
Anterior ST elevation: is it STEMI?
I received a call from an outside hospital. A 31 year old healthy auto mechanic had a prolonged exposure to Carbon Monoxide in his…
ST elevation (Saddleback), is it STEMI?
This 56 year old male presented with atypical chest pain and left arm numbness off and on for one week, worse on the day of presentation:…
Inferior ST Elevation: what is the Diagnosis?
You can read this post here, or watch a video presentation of it: https://hqmeded.com/inferior-st-elevation-2/ I was handed this ECG, without…
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…