OMI Confirmed by POCUS Echo in a 50 year man
Case submitted and written by Alex Bracey A man in his 50s with no significant past medical history presented from a local beach with…
What is the Diagnosis in this 70-something with Chest Pain?
This is a very commonly missed ECG of a terrible condition. In this case, it was almost dismissed. I present many other similar…
A man in his 40s with chest pain and syncope after cocaine use
Written by Pendell Meyers, with edits by Steve Smith A man in his early 40s with history of MI s/p PCI presented with bilateral anterior chest…
A 40 year old man with chest pain since last night
Written and submitted by Ashley Mogul, with edits by Pendell Meyers and Steve Smith A man in his 40s with recent smoking cessation but…
Would you have given thrombolytics to this NSTEMI patient?
Case submitted by Dr. James Alva A middle aged male called EMS for chest pain. EMS arrived and confirmed that the patient was complaining of…
ST segment concavity is just one small piece of the puzzle that is pattern recognition
Written by Pendell Meyers Here are two striking examples from a single shift highlighting the fallibility of the standard “smiley…
A man in his sixties with chest pain at midnight with undetectable troponin
Written by Pendell Meyers A male in his 60s with no known past medical history presented at midnight with chest pain over the past 3 hours.…
A man in his sixties with chest pain at midnight with undetectable troponin
Written by Pendell Meyers A male in his 60s with no known past medical history presented at midnight with chest pain over the past 3 hours.…
Doctor, should we activate the hospital’s “STEMI alert”?
Written by Pendell Meyers I received this prehospital ECG (we receive prehospital ECGs by telemetry from EMS in a large area around our…
How long would you like to wait for your Occlusion MI to show a STEMI? Sometimes serial ECGs minimizes the delay.
Written by Pendell Meyers An elderly woman presented with acute onset chest pain and shortness of breath. EMS showed us their ECG on arrival…