MIBHS

MARCH 31, 2025

When discussing heart health, heart attacks and cardiac arrest are two terms that are often mistaken for one another. Understanding the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest can help in recognizing symptoms, seeking prompt medical care, and even saving lives. What is Cardiac Arrest?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Here are three more dramatic cases that illustrate RBBB + LAFB Case 1 of cardiac arrest with unrecognized STEMI, died. Furthermore, among 35 patients with acute left main coronary artery occlusion, 9 presented with RBBB (mostly with LAH) on the admission ECG.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The lesion was intervened on with balloon angioplasty and had subsequent TIMI 3 flow. Acute myocardial infarction in patients with dialysis Patients on dialysis have a well studied history of underdiagnosis and undertreatment for acute myocardial infarction. There was initially TIMI 0 flow. What can we learn?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Other cases of LAD OMI with RBBB/LAFB: A man in his 40s who really needs you to understand his ECG Cardiac Arrest at the airport, with an easy but important ECG for everyone to recognize A woman in her 60s with 6 hours of chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, and hypoxemia Ventricular Fibrillation, ROSC after perfusion restored by ECMO, then ECG.

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