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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Retrieved July 2, 2022, from [link] Moyé, D. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from [link] Sybrandy, K. I've copied KEY points from My Comment in the August 6, 2022 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog — regarding the answer to this question. References Alborzi, Z., Zangouri, V., Ghahramani, Z.,

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A 90-something with acute stroke. She has no chest symptoms. What is the diagnosis?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Dr. Smith circulated the initial ECG in today's case ( that I reproduce in Figure-1 ) to our group — initially without him yet knowing anything about this patient. Re ECG recognition of SA Block — See My Comment at the bottom of the page in the May 25, 2022 post — as well as my comment in the Addendum of the August 30, 2023 post.

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Chest pain, and Cardiology didn't take the hint from the ICD

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Triage physician interpretation: -sinus bradycardia -lateral ST depressions While there are lateral ST depressions (V5, V6) the deepest ST depressions are in V4. In this case, the vessel supplied a portion of the posterior LV circulation. The screening physician ordered an EKG and noted his ashen appearance and moderate distress.

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What is strange about this paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in an otherwise healthy patient? And what happened after giving ibutilide?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Baseline bradycardia in endurance athletes limits the use of ß-blockers. 25, 2022 ). Ballatore et al — Medicina (Kaunas) 55(8): 497, 2019 — and — Page et al — Circulation 107:1141-1145, 2003 ). Clinically — The importance of factoring in increased vagal tone as a contributing factor to AFib episodes — extends into management.

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7 steps to missing posterior Occlusion MI, and how to avoid them

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Sinus bradycardia, normal conduction, normal axis, normal R wave progression, no hypertrophy. Circulation 2014 7. -- McLaren JTT, Meyers HP, Smith SW, Chartier LB. CJEM 2021 == MY Comment, by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 1/3/2022 ): == Excellent case presentation by Dr. Jesse McLaren! What do you think?

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Orchestra BioMed Announces Initiation of BACKBEAT Pivotal Study of AVIM Therapy in Hypertensive Pacemaker Patients

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formed a strategic collaboration for the development and commercialization of AVIM therapy for hypertensive pacemaker patients in July 2022. Our collaboration with Orchestra BioMed will explore how cardiac pacing can go beyond management of bradycardia and conduction disease to treat hypertension as well,” said Robert C. Circulation.

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What are treatment options for this rhythm, when all else fails?

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There was no evidence bradycardia leading up to the runs of PMVT ( as tends to occur with Torsades ). If there had been — a temporary atrial pacemaker could have been considered as a way of increasing the heart rate to suppress a bradycardia-dependent arrhythmia ("overdrive pacing").