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90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

See this case: what do you think the echocardiogram shows in this case? Methods STEMI activations between January 2014 and April 2018 at the University of Arizona Medical Center were identified. Thirty-six patients (36%) presented with cardiac arrest, and 78% (28/36) underwent emergent angiography.

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A man in his 70s with weakness and syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Formal echocardiogram showed normal EF, no wall motion abnormalities, no pericardial effusion. KEY Point: A number of conditions other than Brugada Syndrome may temporarily produce a Brugada-1 ECG pattern ( World J Cardiol 6(3):81-86, 2014 ). No more troponins were done. He was found to be influenza positive.