ECG Cases
APRIL 2, 2024
In this ECG Cases blog, Jesse McLaren and Rajiv Thavanathan explore how ECG and POCUS complement each other for patients presenting to the emergency department with shortness of breath or chest pain. The post ECG Cases 49 – ECG and POCUS for Dyspnea and Chest Pain appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2024
I assumed it was a patient with acute chest pain. It was a man in his 30s with chest pain. While statistical likelihood of acute OMI is clearly lower in younger adults — nothing is ruled out by age alone ( as per My Comment in the January 9, 2023 and December 5, 2023 posts in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog ). 27 post ).
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Written by Jesse McLaren Two patients in their 70s presented to the ED with chest pain and RBBB. Patient 1 : a 75 year old called paramedics with one day of left shoulder pain which migrated to the central chest, which was worse with deep breaths. Do either, both, or neither have occlusion MI? Vitals were normal.
Ken Grauer, MD
AUGUST 29, 2024
One reason why LBBB conduction in a patient with marked LVH may not evolve to a predominant ( if not all positive ) R wave by lead V6 — is that leftward and posterior forces of marked LVH with LBBB may delay transition to predominant positivity in the chest leads until more posteriorly oriented chest leads, such as V7 or V8.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
2 middle aged males presented with chest pain. Which had the more severe chest pain at the time of the ECG? Patient 2 at the bottom with a very subtle OMI complained of 10/10 chest pain at the time the ECG was recorded. 414 patients were included in the analysis.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 7, 2024
Written by Jesse McLaren A 45-year-old presented with 24 hours of intermittent chest pain. On it’s own this is nonspecific, but in the right context this could be diagonal occlusion (if active chest pain) or infero-posterior reperfusion (if resolved chest pain). #2 Can you guess the sequence?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
This was sent by anonymous The patient is a 55-year-old male who presented to the emergency department after approximately 3 to 4 days of intermittent central boring chest pain initially responsive to nitroglycerin, but is now more constant and not responsive to nitroglycerin. It is unknown when this pain recurred and became constant.
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