Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 19, 2024

Another blood pressure was checked. He was severely hypotensive, with a systolic pressure in the 50s. The undergraduate continues: This new EKG pattern is more suggestive of acute pericarditis. Usually with pericarditis, some degree of PR segment depression is expected. This is typical of pericarditis.

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Chest Pain Pericarditis Pacemaker STEMI 60

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This may be in the strength of the pulse ( or the blood pressure recorded ) — or it may be in one or more waveforms in the ECG recording. The term "alternans" itself — merely indicates that there is a phasic fluctuation in some cardiac signal fro m one beat to the next within the cardiac cycle.

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Tachycardia Cardiac Arrest ICU Blog 131

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The second most common cause of medical cardiac tamponade is acute idiopathic pericarditis. Less common etiologies include uremia, bacterial or tubercular pericarditis, chronic idiopathic pericarditis, hemorrhage, and other causes such as autoimmune diseases, radiation, myxedema, etc.

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Tachycardia Pericarditis Ultrasound Blood Pressure 40