Remove 2022 Remove Bradycardia Remove Pericarditis
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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 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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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

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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. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from [link] Moyé, D. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from [link] Sybrandy, K. ST depression. Zangouri, V.,

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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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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. 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.

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Inferior ST elevation with reciprocal change: which of these 4 patients has Occlusion MI?

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Patient 2 : 55 year old with 5 hours of chest pain radiating to the shoulder, with nausea and shortness of breath ECG: sinus bradycardia, normal conduction, normal axis, normal R wave progression, no hypertrophy. Smith : The fact that the ECG did not evolve is further proof that this was the baseline ECG. nearly identical to the first case).

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OMI in a pediatric patient? Teenagers do get acute coronary occlusion, so don't automatically dismiss the idea.

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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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Unconscious + STEMI criteria: activate the cath lab?

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This ECG shows a sinus bradycardia with a normal conduction pattern (normal PR, normal QRS, and normal QTc), normal axis, normal R-wave progression, normal voltages. Hypothermia can also produce bradycardia and J waves, with a pseudo-STEMI pattern. Can J Cardiol 2022 Kukla P, Jastrezebski M, Praefort W. What do you think?

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