MIBHS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This blog post aims to provide comprehensive information and support for families navigating the challenges of CHDs, offering insights into the medical, emotional, and practical aspects of managing this condition. It’s essential to work with a pediatric cardiologist who has experience with congenital heart defects.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The pediatric team felt it might be ACS, but on review of his prior ECGs, it was thought to be really unchanged from the 2 prior and more consistent with myocarditis. Dr. Punjabi has a fantastic radiology blog on Spectral CT: [link] A negative CT should not be relied upon to rule out ischemia. The troponin I returned at 9.3

Chest Pain 52

Chest Pain Pericarditis Ischemia Pediatrics 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 10, 2021

It is important to remember that pediatric tracings manifest a number of differences from adult ECGs. Looking in the limb leads ( especially lead II , given the long R-R interval between the 2nd and 3rd beat in this lead ) — We would expect to see an extra P wave if there was 2:1 block.

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Echocardiogram Pediatrics Heart Disease Article 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

He has a great blog too: ECG Interpretation He is also well known on the Facebook EKG Club page , where you can learn tons about ECGs: Here is his response, with the first ECG labelled: Hello Steve & Avinash. It is commonly seen in the reperfusion setting. It appears to be benign in children as well (see references below).

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Chest Pain Congenital Heart Disease Article Congenital 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 8, 2020

See the 5 articles below.

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Article Electrocardiogram Pediatrics Strokes 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In this pediatric study, it was 71% successful and better than amiodarone. Meyers, Smith; Weingart wrote an extensive review on Idiopathic VT in the September 14, 2018 post of Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog. Procainamide is another reasonable solution to the problem. As a result — it’s worth briefly reviewing this entity of “ Idiopathic ” VT.

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Tachycardia Heart Disease Dysrhythmia Ablation 52

GEMMS

JANUARY 2, 2024

To create comprehensive reports, connect to applications dealing with 4D, echocardiography, nuclear medicine, CT angiography, and pediatric echo reporting. This is a great way to increase productivity in any medical setting.

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Document Patient Care Private Practice Reimbursement 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 22, 2012

A 6 yo girl had significant trauma from an MVC, with head injury (initial GCS 10, but no intracranial bleeding) and mild orthopedic injuries. She was intubated. A FAST exam was normal (no pericardial or peritoneal fluid). As part of her workup, this ECG was recorded: What do you think?

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Dysrhythmia Biomarkers Echocardiogram Ultrasound 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Learning points: == MY Comment , by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 1/15 /2024 ): == Today's case by Dr. Nossen differs from other cases of AV block we have published over the years in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog — in that the cause of AV block turned out to be CS ( C ardiac S arcoidosis ).

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Tachycardia Arrhythmia Heart Disease Sudden Cardiac Death 106

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 22, 2023

Pediatric and elderly patients were more predisposed to developing an arrhythmic event in the setting of fever [7]. Recently the rate of true arrhythmic events related to fevers in the classic Brugada Type 1 syndrome was explored by Michowitz et al. mm ( generally ≥2 mm ) in ≥1 right precordial lead, followed by a positive T-wave. —

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Chest Pain Heart Rhythm Sudden Cardiac Death Dysrhythmia 92

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Pediatric and elderly patients were more predisposed to developing an arrhythmic event in the setting of fever [7]. Recently the rate of true arrhythmic events related to fevers in the classic Brugada Type 1 syndrome was explored by Michowitz et al.

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Heart Rhythm Sudden Cardiac Death Arrhythmia STEMI 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I've been working on this a long time, thought about submitting it to a journal, but decided it gets more readers on this blog. Instead, in this blog post we will compare the rule-of-thumb to each of the four formulas, effectively substituting usual care for the unattainable gold-standard of outcomes.

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Bradycardia Article Atrial Fibrillation Chest Pain 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Acute coronary syndrome in a pediatric patient? An ECG was perfomed on arrival to our ED: NSR with ST elevation II,III, aVF with reciprocal depression in aVL Would you refer this pediatric patient for emergent PCI? World J Pediatr. The workup at the transferring hospital yielded elevated troponin I at 18.1 Epub 2021 May 20.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

8, 2019 ) — ( Jan. 30, 2019 ) — many others.

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Sudden Cardiac Death Heart Rhythm Article Tachycardia 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I suspect most blog readers did not struggle with this one. Toward this end we've conveniently added a LINK for "LVH Criteria" in the Menu at the top of every page in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog. I sent this ECG to Dr. Smith with no clinical context, and he immediately replied "Fake." Figure-1: I've labeled today's ECG.

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