2019 Chest Pain Pericarditis 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 9, 2024
By Magnus Nossen This ECG is from a young man with no risk factors for CAD, he presented with chest pain. The patient is a young adult male with chest pain. The chest pain was described as pressure like and radiation to both arms and the jaw. It is easy to say pericarditis in such a case.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 19, 2024
Case An 82 year old man with a history of hypertension presented to the ED with chest pain at 1211. He described his chest pain as pleuritic and reported that it started the day prior while swinging a golf club. His pain suddenly became much worse in the ED and he became acutely diaphoretic, dizzy, and hypotensive.
Ken Grauer, MD
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The patient was discharged with a diagnosis of acute pericarditis — and treated with a full course of colchicine and ibuprofen. The ultimate discharge diagnosis was acute pericarditis. ( From the information provided — I would not make the diagnosis of acute pericarditis. Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 25, 2023
Healthy male under 25 years old with a pretty good story for acute onset crushing chest pain relieved with nitro. First, many on Twitter said "Pericarditis". This is NOT pericarditis, which virtually NEVER has ST depression any where except aVR. Angiogram : "Acute onset chest pressure with diaphoresis." "ECG
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his late 40s with several ACS risk factors presented with a chief complaint of chest pain. Several hours prior to presentation, while driving his truck, he started experiencing new central chest pain, without radiation, aggravating/alleviating factors, or other associated symptoms.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 15, 2024
They had difficulty describing their symptoms, but complained of severe weakness, nausea, vomiting, headache, and chest pain. They described the chest pain as severe, crushing, and non-radiating. Altogether, this strongly suggests inferolateral OMI, particularly in a patient with acute chest pain.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
AUGUST 4, 2024
Overall, this looks like one of the rare ECGs that is actually specific for pericarditis in my opinion. Pericarditis maybe." Context: a man in his 40s presented to the emergency department with 1 day of sudden onset chest pain. Meyers' words — "is one of the rare ECGs that is actually specific for pericarditis".
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