A woman in her 40s with intractable nausea and vomiting, dyspnea, and lightheadedness
Submitted and written by Oriane Longerstaey MD, peer reviewed by Meyers, Smith, and McLaren A woman in her 40s with diabetes and HLD…
Another diagnostic ECG of a potentially deadly condition
Written by Pendell Meyers A middle aged woman with no significant past medical history presented with epigastric abdominal pain with…
What is the differential of this very unusual ECG?
Take a look at this ECG first without clinical context: What do you think? There is sinus bradycardia with very unusual shortened QT interval…
A young man with back spasms
Written by Pendell Meyers with edits by Steve Smith First see this ECG without clinical context: What do you see? Do you agree with the…
QT Correction Formulas Compared to The Rule of Thumb (“Half the RR”)
This article discusses correction of the QT interval for rate. I’ve been working on this a long time, thought about submitting it to a…
Long QT: Do not trust the computerized QT interval when the QT is long
A middle-aged male with h/o DM was found down. He was hypoglycemic (mild, 45 mg/dl) and had pneumonia with hypoxia. He had this…
ST depression: is it ischemia? No, hypokalemia.
This patient presented with alcohol intoxication and possible overdose. No ischemic symptoms. Rate 71 PR 224 QRSD 90 QT 424 QTc 461 There is…