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ECG Blog #448 — A Young Man with Chest Pain.

Ken Grauer, MD

For example, considering whatever symptoms that the patient may have had ( ie, chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, etc. ) — what this might mean in view of the ECG we are looking at. STEP #2 = Clinical Impression — in which we correlate our assessment that we made in Step #1 to the clinical situation at hand.

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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

No prior exertional complaints of chest pain, dizziness, lightheadedness, or undue shortness of breath. He denied headache or neck pain associated with exertion. I sent this ECG to Dr. Smith, with the only information that it is a 17 year old with chest pain. 24 yo woman with chest pain: Is this STEMI?

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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

60-something with h/o MI and stents presented with chest pain radiating to the back and nausea/vomiting. Pericarditis? A straight ST segment virtually never happens in inferior ST elevation that is NOT due to OMI (normal variant, pericarditis) 4. Time zero What do you think? There is inferior ST elevation. It was stented.