A man in his 30s with cardiac arrest and STE on the post-ROSC ECG
Written by Pendell Meyers and Peter Brooks MD A man in his 30s with no known past medical history was reported to suddenly experience chest…
A man in his 40s with RUQ abdominal pain
Submitted and written by Lucas Goss MD, edits by Meyers and Smith A man in his 40’s with only past medical history of tobacco use presented…
A woman in her 50s with shortness of breath
Case written by Neha Ray, MD, with edits by Meyers, Smith, Grauer A woman in her 50s presented for evaluation of multiple episodes of…
Collapse, pulse present, ECG shows inferior OMI. Then there is loss of pulses with continued narrow complex on the monitor (“PEA arrest”)
An elderly woman was witnessed to collapse. 911 was called and when EMS arrived, she was unresponsive with shallow respirations, a GCS…
When the ECG is more revealing than the HPI
Written by Alex Bracey with edits from Pendell Meyers and Steve Smith A woman in her 60s presented to the ED as a referral from an…
A man in his 40s with a highly specific ECG
Case submitted by Charles Harris M.D. and Vitaliy Belyshev M.D., with edits by Pendell Meyers A 43 year old man with no reported past medical…
Chest pain, ST Elevation, and tachycardia in a 40-something woman
A prehospital cath lab activation for STEMI came through with the information that the 40-something woman had chest pain and a pulse of 140.…
Repost: Syncope, Shock, AV block, RBBB, Large RV, “Anterior” ST Elevation in V1-V3
I came across this post from 2015 while answering a question on Twitter, and decided to repost it:…
A young woman with altered mental status and hypotension
Written by Pendell Meyers I texted this Prehospital ECG with no clinical information to Dr. Smith. What do you think? Dr. Smith texted back…
An elderly woman transferred to you for chest pain, shortness of breath, and positive troponin – does she need the cath lab now?
Written by Alex Bracey, with edits by Smith and Meyers A female in her 70s presented to the ED at sign out while working in our acute…