Three prehospital ECGs in patients with chest pain
Written by Magnus Nossen with Edits by Grauer and Smith The ECGs in today’s case are from 3 different patients all presenting with new-onset…
A 29 year old male with chest pain, ST Elevation, and very elevated troponin T
By Magnus Nossen This ECG is from a young man with no risk factors for CAD, he presented with chest pain. How would you assess this ECG? How…
A 20-something woman with cardiac arrest.
The patient is a 20 something female. She is healthy with no known cardiac disease. She was admitted to the neurology department due to…
Should we activate the cath lab? A Quiz on 5 Cases.
Imagine you just started your ED shift. It’s a busy Friday afternoon. Triage is backed up, and 10 minutes into your shift one of the ED…
A 20-something with intermittent then acute chest pain
This was sent to me by a partner: “Curious what you think of this one we had overnight. Healthy male under 25 years old with a…
Is this Myo-pericarditis? Or OMI with subsequent pericarditis? Does the angiogram always explain the ECG findings?
A 57 y.o. male with a history of diabetes presented with sharp, substernal chest pain with radiation to the bilateral shoulders that…
A 30-something with Chest pain, elevated troponin, with Subtle ST Elevation and hyperacute T-waves.
A 30-something male presented in the middle of the night with several hours of sharp, non-radiating, left sided chest pain. It was there…
A man in his 50s with fever and shortness of breath
Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s with HTN, HLD, obesity, and restrictive lung disease presented with shortness of breath worsening…
A 53 yo woman with cardiogenic shock. Believe me, this is not what you think.
This was sent by a reader. A previously healthy 53 yo woman was transferred to a receiving hospital in cardiogenic shock. pH was 6.9 and K was…