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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient was taken emergently to the cath lab for a pericardiocentesis instead of a coronary angiogram. The post pericardiocentesis impression and plan read: Pericardial effusion / tamponade - hemorrhagic , fairly acute as hemodynamically significant w only 150cc.

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90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Hgb 11g/dL (110g/L) and leukocytosis, and a mildly elevated troponin (36 ng/L, with normal 1mm STE in aVR due to ACS will require coronary artery bypass surgery for revascularization, the infarct artery is often not the LM, but rather the LAD or severe 3-vessel disease. Incidence of an acute coronary occlusion. link] Harhash AA et al.