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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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No Chest Pain, but somnolent. The fact that this is syncope makes give it a far lower pretest probability than chest pain, but it was really more than syncope, as the patient actually underwent CPR and had hypotension on arrival of EMS. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015; 33(6):786-790.

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A 50-something with 5 hours of typical chest pain and Left Bundle Branch Block

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A 50-something male who is healthy and active with no previous medical history presented with 5 hours of continuous worrisome chest pain. Chest pain with New LBBB: It helps to actually measure the ST/S ratio A Fascinating Demonstration of ST/S Ratio in LBBB and Resolving LAD Ischemia The cath lab was activated.

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A 60-something Woman with Chest Pain and a Wide QRS

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== MY Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 9/17/2020 ): == Todays patient is a previously healthy, 60-something year-old woman who presented with chest pain that began at a reception. Smith for developing Modified Smith-Sgarbossa Criteria for assessing ST-T wave changes in chest pain patients with LBBB. See text ). (

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Acute OMI or "Benign" Early Repolarization?

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Written by Willy Frick A man in his 50s with a history of hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and prior inferior OMI status post DES to his proximal RCA 3 years prior presented to the emergency department at around 3 AM complaining of chest pain onset around 9 PM the evening prior. The following ECG was obtained.

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A man in his 70s with acute chest pain and paced rhythm.

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Edits by Meyers and Smith A man in his 70s with PMH of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, CVA, dual-chamber Medtronic pacemaker, presented to the ED for evaluation of acute chest pain. American Heart Journal 170(6):1255-1264; December 2015. Triage ECG: What do you think? This is diagnostic of proximal LAD occlusion.

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Do patients with LBBB and STEMI, when reperfused, develop T-wave inversion (reperfusion T-waves)?

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American Heart Journal 170(6):1255-1264; December 2015. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Before the case, a few comments: Pendell and I just published a case report of a patient with left bundle branch block who presented with chest pain that then resolved. 0 0 1 41 238 MMRF 1 1 278 14.0

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Concerning EKG with a Non-obstructive angiogram. What happened?

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link] A 62 year old man with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and carotid artery stenosis called 911 at 9:30 in the morning with complaint of chest pain. He described it as "10/10" intensity, radiating across his chest from right to left. This is written by Willy Frick, an amazing cardiology fellow in St.

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