Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Written by Bobby Nicholson MD, with edits by Meyers A woman in her 50s with past medical history of heart failure, prior stroke, atrial fibrillation on Eliquis, lung cancer in remission, and CKD, presented to the emergency department for evaluation of cough and shortness of breath. Khouzam RN. What do you think? References: 1.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2016

There is atrial fibrillation. Comments: STEMI with hypokalemia, especially with a long QT, puts the patient at very high risk of Torsades or Ventricular fibrillation (see many references, with abstracts, below). malignant ventricular arrhythmias are present), rapid replacement of potassium is required. mmol/L (range 0.11.7

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Although the emergency physician (along with an APRN and an RN) had not seen any alterations in the rhythm after adenosine was pushed, a paper recording of the episode was subsequently unearthed. The WCT is interrupted by a series of variable-morphology QRS complexes, with atrial flutter waves note in II, III, and aVF. A surprise clue!

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