75 year old with acute chest pain: 6 bad reasons not to cath.
Written by Jesse McLaren, edits by Smith A 75 year old without cardiac history presented to the emergency department with 3 hours of acute…
What is this Pattern? Is an initial troponin I of 45 ng/L diagnostic?
A middle aged male presented with acute chest pain. He was seen by Emily Dawra, one of our 2nd year EM residents, about to become 3rd year in…
HEART Score Zero. Computer Normal ECG. Troponin Undetectable. Speckle Tracking Echo normal.
A completely healthy 30-something year old woman with no cardiac risk factors had sudden onset of bilateral trapezius pain that radiated…
Early repol or anterior OMI?
Chest Pain – Benign Early Repol or OMI? Written by Destiny Folk, MD, Adam Engberg, MD, and Vitaliy Belyshev MD A man in his early 60s with a…
Repost from Saturday Oct 14: The Queen gets it right with a better image
This is a case I posted Saturday, October 14. This ECG was texted to me after the fact with no information. What do you think? This is the ECG…
Judge for yourself the management of this patient with “NSTEMI, multivessel disease”
Sent by anonymous, edited by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s with history only of hypertension presented with acute chest pain that…
A woman in her 70s with chest pain
Case sent by Logan Stark MD, written by Pendell Meyers A woman in her 70s presented with acute chest pain. It started 10 hours prior to…
QS-wave in V2: 2 cases, different paradigms lead to different treatment times (STEMI – NSTEMI vs. OMI – NOMI)
Submitted by anonymous, written by Pendell Meyers. Additional case by Smith. Case 1 A middle aged woman presented with acute chest pain…
A 50 year old with chest pain? What is going on? By Emre Aslanger.
Posted by Emre Aslanger, our newest blog Editor. Emre is a distinguished cardiologist in Turkey, and has published widely on the ECG…
Memorize the squiggly lines – it helps save lives.
Sent by Logan Stark, MD, written by Pendell Meyers Dr. Stark sent me this ECG below and said “Curious on your thoughts without…