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Chest pain: Are these really "Nonspecific ST-T wave abnormalities", as the cardiologist interpretation states?

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Written by Jesse McLaren, with a very few edits by Smith A 60-year-old presented with chest pain. Inferior hyperacute T waves, which have been added to the 2022 ACC consensus on chest pain as a “STEMI equivalent”[3] 3. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol 2010 7. But are there any other signs of Occlusion MI?

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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

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She denied chest pain and denied feeling any palpitations, even during her triage ECG: What do you think? 1211-1212 CrossRef View Record in Scopus Google Scholar 2 FI Marcus, W Zareba The electrocardiogram in right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia. The diagnosis is not easy (see below). J Electrocardiol, 42 (2009), pp.

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QT Correction Formulas Compared to The Rule of Thumb ("Half the RR")

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Essential Reading : Full text link: AHA/ACCF/HRS Recommendations for the Standardization and Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram, Part IV: The ST Segment, T and U Waves, and the QT Interval (full text link). JACC 55(9):934-947; 2010 ]. Other Research: According to this study b y Batchvarov et al. ,

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

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Check : [vitals, SOB, Chest Pain, Ultrasound] If the patient has Abdominal Pain, Chest Pain, Dyspnea or Hypoxemia, Headache, Hypotension , then these should be considered the primary chief complaint (not syncope). Aortic Dissection, Valvular (especially Aortic Stenosis), Tamponade.