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InterAtrial Block

EMS 12-Lead

MRI Brain demonstrated Left MCA acute/subacute infarct, MCA/PCA watershed, and no hemorrhagic transformation. Examples of cardio embolic stroke etiology include: 1. In the pre-hospital setting the varying modalities needed to rule-in/rule-out these causative factors are not available (eg, Chest X-ray, Echocardiogram, etc).

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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Hopefully a repeat echocardiogram will be performed outpatient. Massive Transfusion for Motorcycle Collision with Hemorrhage, Troponin Elevated. Other Arrhythmias ( PACs, PVCs, AFib, Bradycardia and AV conduction disorders — potentially lethal VT/VFib ). 1900: RBBB and LAFB are almost fully resolved. No cardiac MRI was done.

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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

See this case: what do you think the echocardiogram shows in this case? With the history of Afib, CTA abdomen was ordered to r/o mesenteric ischemia vs ischemic colitis vs small bowel obstruction. Smith : It should be noted that, in subendocardial ischemia, in contrast to OMI, absence of wall motion abnormality is common.

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Patient in Single Vehicle Crash: What is this ST Elevation, with Peak Troponin of 6500 ng/L?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

An echocardiogram was done. A man in his 40s with multitrauma from motor vehicle collision Massive Transfusion for Motorcycle Collision with Hemorrhage, Troponin Elevated. Other Arrhythmias ( PACs, PVCs, AFib, Bradycardia and AV conduction disorders — potentially lethal VT/VFib ). Is there also Brugada?

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Cryptogenic Stroke

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

In hemorrhagic strokes, there is a bleed and therefore the blood that would have gone to supply the brain cells goes somewhere else. Conditions such as AFib are often said to be associated with stroke as a consequence of cardioembolism. It will help delineate between hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke.

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