Healthy 45-year-old with chest pain: early repolarization, pericarditis or injury?
Submitted by Dr. George Mastoras (Twitter @georgemastoras), written by Jesse McLaren It’s a busy day in the ED when you’re sent another ECG to…
Repost from Saturday Oct 14: The Queen gets it right with a better image
This is a case I posted Saturday, October 14. This ECG was texted to me after the fact with no information. What do you think? This is the ECG…
See OMI vs. STEMI philosophy in action
by Emre Aslanger Dr. Aslanger is our newest editorial member. He is an interventional cardiologist in Turkey. Dr. Aslanger is also…
A 40-something man with very elevated blood pressure and acute severe chest pain
This 40-something male whose only medical history was hypertension presented with acute chest pain. A 12-lead ECG was immediately recorded…
A man in his 60s woken from sleep by epigastric pain. Would you have been able to correctly diagnose him?
Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his mid 60s with history of CAD and stents experienced sudden onset epigastric abdominal pain radiating up…
Chest pain in a 30-something: Is it Normal variant STE or OMI? Get the prior ECG, and don’t trust Point of Care troponin assays!
Submitted by Benjamin Garbus, MD with edits by Bracey, Meyers, and Smith A man in his early 30s presented to the ED with chest pain…
A man in his 40s with chest pain reproducible with palpation
Written by Pendell Meyers, submitted by George Konstantinou A man in his early 40s with history of smoking and hypertension presented to the…
A middle-aged male with chest pain
A 40-something male presented with chest pressure. Here is his triage ECG: What do you think? The triage physician suspected that this was a…
Acute Chest pain in a 50-something, and a “Normal” ECG
Chris Mondie of the Newark Beth Israel Emergency Medicine Residency sent this case A 50-something man presented with acute…
What will you do for this patient transferred to you who is now asymptomatic?
A middle-aged woman with history of hypertension presented to another hospital approximately 2 hours after onset of chest pain and shortness…