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…
Right Bundle Branch Block and Posterior OMI????
This 39 year old patient presents with syncope. What do you think? There appears to be RBBB with excessively discordant ST depression…
Chest pain and anterior ST depression. What’s the cause(s)?
Written by Jesse McLaren, with edits from Smith and Grauer A 60 year old with no past medical history presented with two hours of chest pain…
Diffuse ST Depression, with ST Elevation in aVR. Do you see the diagnosis?
This was texted to me from 2000 miles away. It is from a 30-something male with chest pain. There was worry for ischemia.…
I thought the ECG diagnosis was obvious. But many missed it. So I’m showing it.
I was reading ECGs in the system and came across this one: What do you think? Computer diagnosis: –ST DEVIATION AND MARKED T-WAVE…
WPW mimicking and obscuring acute MI
This was inspired by an undergraduate named Harvey Pendell Meyers, who knows a heck of a lot about ECGs. How is that possible, as an…