A 34 yo Man with chest pain and Zero ST Elevation
Written by Hans Helseth A 34 year old man with no known medical history presented to the ED after an hour of chest pain. He described the pain…
Two prehospital ECGs of patients with chest pain.
Written by Pendell Meyers and Steve Smith Here are two cases of middle-aged men with chest pain who had prehospital ECGs. Patient 1, ECG 1:…
85 year old with chest pain, STEMI negative, then normal troponin but with relatively large delta: discharge?
Written by Jesse McLaren, with comments from Smith An 85 year old with a history of CAD presented with 3 hours of chest pain that feels…
A woman in her 50s with acute chest pain
Submitted and written by Anonymous, edits by Meyers and Smith A 50s-year-old patient with no known cardiac history presented at 0045 with…
On its way from occlusion to reperfusion (or vice versa), the ECG can be normal or near normal
Written by Pendell Meyers I was reading ECGs in a database (without any clinical information) when I came to this one: What do you think?…
Are all of these ST-T findings due to LVH?
I was texted this ECG: What do you think? What did I text back? The ECG is diagnostic of acute inferior-posterior…
Two patients with chest pain. Do either of them need emergent reperfusion? Both? Neither?
Written by Pendell Meyers Here is a quick comparison / quiz post. It will be easy for long time blog readers. The two ECGs below are…
A woman in her 60s with syncope and vomiting. Does she need a pacemaker?
Written by Pendell Meyers with some edits by Steve Smith A woman in her 60s on chemotherapy presented to the Emergency Department for a…
A man in his 60s with chest pain. Could you have prevented his cardiac arrest?
Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 60s with HTN and AF presented with chest pain that started about 1 hour ago and started to subside…
A man in his 30s with 12 hours of chest pain; is the ECG consistent with 12 hours of occlusion?
Written by Pendell Meyers, submitted by Siva Vittozzi-Wong A man in his 30s with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes…