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What is this ECG finding? Do you understand it before you hear the clinical context?

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Altered Mental Status, Bradycardia == MY Comment , by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 2/2 /2024 ): == Dr. Meyers began today’s case with the clinical challenge of asking you to identify the underlying cause of ECG #2. -- Read this ECG -- Osborn Waves and Hypothermia (this is the "Figure" above) What does LBBB look like in severe hypothermia?

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Dip and plateau pattern of ventricular pressure tracing in constrictive pericarditis

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

It is mentioned that square root sign can also occur in right right ventricular cardiomyopathy and severe bradycardia [1]. 2015 Mar-Apr;67(2):175-82. Epub 2015 May 13. Reference Doshi S, Ramakrishnan S, Gupta SK. Invasive hemodynamics of constrictive pericarditis. Indian Heart J. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2015.04.011. 2015.04.011.

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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

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2015, March 1). Other Arrhythmias ( PACs, PVCs, AFib, Bradycardia and AV conduction disorders — potentially lethal VT/VFib ). RBBB in blunt chest trauma seems to be indicative of several RV injury. Atrial fibrillation is also a predictor of worse outcomes in this case (Alborzi). Dyer From the Division of Cardiology, Thankavel, P.

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Texted from a former EM resident: 70 yo with syncope and hypotension, but no chest pain. Make their eyes roll!

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The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015; 33(6):786-790. Electrocardiographic Criteria to Differentiate Acute Anterior ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction from Left Ventricular Aneurysm. link] So I responded with these words: Smith : "There are QS waves, which suggest old MI. But the T-waves in LV aneurysm are not this big.

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Cardioneuroablation for pediatric patients with functional sinus node dysfunction and paroxysmal atrioventricular block

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Abstract Introduction Severe transitory episodes of bradycardia with subsequent syncope in children are common, and generally portend a benign prognosis. Patients with SP or AVB, 21 years of age or younger, who underwent CNA between 2015 and 2021 were included. Methods This is a single-center, case series study. The median age was 18.9

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What is athlete’s heart?

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Athlete’s bradycardia due to increased parasympathetic tone and decreased sympathetic tone is a well-known observation. Though sinus bradycardia is usual, other abnormalities like sinus arrhythmia, sinus arrest, wandering atrial pacemaker and coronary sinus rhythm have been described. 2015 Apr;16(4):353.

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Hypothermia at 18 Celsius in V Fib arrest: CPR, then ECMO rewarming, for 3 hours, then Defib with ROSC. Interpret the ECG.

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Sci 5[4] 268-270, 2015 ) both highlight a likely association between acute development of ischemic J waves — and high risk of developing malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Rituparna et al — as well as Chauhan and Brahma ( Int.