Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A repeat ECG was performed as adult cardiology was asked to evaluate the patient for emerget PCI: Sinus bradycardia with persistent elevation in the inferior leads with reciprocal depression in aVL Patient was taken to cath lab with adult cardiology which revealed normal coronary arteries without evidence of occlusion MI.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

Three months prior to this presentation, he received a pacemaker for severe bradycardia and syncope due to sinus node dysfunction. The undergraduate continues: This new EKG pattern is more suggestive of acute pericarditis. Usually with pericarditis, some degree of PR segment depression is expected. This EKG seems to lack it.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 28, 2019

Pericarditis? A straight ST segment virtually never happens in inferior ST elevation that is NOT due to OMI (normal variant, pericarditis) 4. This is sinus bradycardia. 60-something with h/o MI and stents presented with chest pain radiating to the back and nausea/vomiting. Time zero What do you think? Is it normal variant?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ECG of pneumopericardium and probable myocardial contusion shows typical pericarditis Male in 30's, 2 days after Motor Vehicle Collsion, complains of Chest Pain and Dyspnea Head On Motor Vehicle Collision. Other Arrhythmias ( PACs, PVCs, AFib, Bradycardia and AV conduction disorders — potentially lethal VT/VFib ). ST depression.

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