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A 50-something with chest pain. Is there OMI? And what is the rhythm?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I will leave more detailed rhythm discussion to the illustrious Dr. Ken Grauer below, but this use of calipers shows that the rhythm interpretation is: Sinus bradycardia with a competing (most likely junctional) rhythm. preceding each of the fascicular beats — indicating a faster rate for the escape rhythm compared to the sinus bradycardia ).

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Inferior Subtle ST elevation: straight ST segment, but also no reciprocal ST depression in aVL: which is more important?

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60-something with h/o MI and stents presented with chest pain radiating to the back and nausea/vomiting. It was stented. The patient had a p rior h istory of MI + stents. This is sinus bradycardia. Time zero What do you think? There is inferior ST elevation. Is it normal variant? Is it ischemic (OMI)? Pericarditis?