Sometimes a patient is fortunate to have a cardiac arrest
Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 60s presented with acute chest pain. Here is his triage ECG: What do you think? There is sinus…
Guidelines would (erroneously) say that this patient who was defibrillated and resuscitated does not need emergent angiography
A patient had a cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation and was successfully defibrillated. Here was his initial ED ECG: Formal…
See what happens when hyperacute T-waves are missed
Written by Pendell Meyers, edits by Steve Smith A man in his 60s with history of hypertension and MI 10 years ago, with PCI, presented to an…