Angina Chest Pain Ultrasound 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
A 50-something male with hypertension and 20- to 40-year smoking history presented with 1 week of stuttering chest pain that is worse with exertion, which takes many minutes to resolve after resting and never occurs at rest. At times the pain does go to his left neck. It is a ssociated with mild dyspnea on exertion.
Heart BMJ
JANUARY 29, 2024
Clinical introduction Vignette A man in his 40s presented to our emergency department with sudden onset of severe central chest pain radiating to his left arm. There was no antecedent angina. Intravascular ultrasound was also performed ( figure 1B ). He was sweaty, clammy and had accompanying breathlessness.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 20, 2024
A 63 year old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prediabetes, and a family history of CAD developed chest pain, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis after consuming a large meal at noon. He called EMS, who arrived on scene about two hours after the onset of pain to find him hypertensive at 220 systolic.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
He was given aspirin and sublingual nitro and the pain resolved. Bedside cardiac ultrasound with no obvious wall motion abnormalities. Another ECG was recorded after the nitroglycerine and now without pain: All findings are resolved. He had a previous ECG on file: Proving the findings are new The cath lab was activated.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 5, 2024
Thus, the patient does not (yet) get a formal diagnosis of MI and must be called unstable angina unless further troponins return above the 99th percentile. The patient said his chest pain was 4/10, down from 8/10 on presentation. On the basis of unresolved angina, cardiology decided to perform rescue PCI. of the time.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2023
link] A 62 year old man with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and carotid artery stenosis called 911 at 9:30 in the morning with complaint of chest pain. He described it as "10/10" intensity, radiating across his chest from right to left. This is written by Willy Frick, an amazing cardiology fellow in St.
DAIC
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
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