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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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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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Osborn waves have been reported with hypercalcemia, brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, Brugada syndrome, cardiac arrest from VFib — and — severe, acute ischemia resulting in acute MI ( See My Comment in the November 22, 2019 post on Dr. Smith’s Blog ). Rituparna et al — as well as Chauhan and Brahma ( Int.

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What would you do with acute chest pain and this ECG? You might see what the Queen thinks.

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Three months prior to this presentation, he received a pacemaker for severe bradycardia and syncope due to sinus node dysfunction. The post pericardiocentesis impression and plan read: Pericardial effusion / tamponade - hemorrhagic , fairly acute as hemodynamically significant w only 150cc.

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Patient in Single Vehicle Crash: What is this ST Elevation, with Peak Troponin of 6500 ng/L?

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A man in his 40s with multitrauma from motor vehicle collision Massive Transfusion for Motorcycle Collision with Hemorrhage, Troponin Elevated. Kazmi et al have reported on a case in which chest trauma was transiently associated with development of a Brugada-1 ECG pattern ( J Am Coll Cardiol 73 [9-Supp-1], 2019 ).