Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

Submitted and written by Megan Lieb, DO with edits by Bracey, Smith, Meyers, and Grauer A 50-ish year old man with ICD presented to the emergency department with substernal chest pain for 3 hours prior to arrival. At this time he reported ongoing chest pain and was given aspirin and nitroglycerin.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

The patient’s chest pain spontaneously resolved before he was evaluated and has a repeat ECG obtained at 22:12 obtained shown below. Soon afterward, the patient’s symptoms return along with lightheadedness, bradycardia, and hypotension. It is unclear if he received aspirin at triage. This ECG is more difficult.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Written by Jesse McLaren, with edits from Smith and Grauer A 60 year old with no past medical history presented with two hours of chest pain radiating to the left arm, with normal vitals. Unfortunately, the reality is — that many ( most ) WPW patients who present with chest pain do not manifest intermittent preexcitation.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

See our other countless hyperkalemia cases below: General hyperkalemia cases: A 50s year old man with lightheadedness and bradycardia Patient with Dyspnea. A woman with near-syncope, bradycardia, and hypotension What happens if you do not recognize this ECG instantly? Also: How did this happen? Is this just right bundle branch block?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 5, 2023

The patient has acute chest pain. Instead — my thoughts were as follows: The rhythm is sinus , with marked bradycardia and a component of sinus arrhythmia. This was texted to me in real time. What do you think? Here was my answer: "Not ischemia. Maybe HOCM or another form of LVH. I would not activate cath lab.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 30, 2023

A 50-something man presented in shock with severe chest pain. Here is his ED ECG: There is bradycardia with a junctional escape. Case continued A bedside ultrasound showed diminished LV EF and of course bradycardia. His prehospital ECG was diagnostic of inferior posterior OMI. He appeared gray in color, with cool skin.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This was sent to me by a former resident from a community hospital: A middle-aged woman complained of chest pain and was seen in triage. The computer interpreted the ECG (GE Marquette 12 SL) as: "Sinus Bradycardia. Here it is: Computer interpretation: "Sinus bradycardia. She had a ECG recorded. Normal ECG."

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 6, 2019

The patient presented with chest pain. I was taught that the tell-tale sign of ischemia vs an electrical abnormality was in the hx, i.e. chest pain for the ischemia and potential syncope for brugada. Only 5-18% of ED patients with chest pain have a myocardial infarction of any kind. Bradycardia.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 30, 2023

Written by Pendell Meyers A woman in her 50s presented with acute chest pain and lightheadedness since the past several hours. Here is her triage ECG during active symptoms: What do you think? The ED physician read this as "Normal sinus rhythm. Marked ST abnormality, possible anterior subendocardial injury."

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

The patient presented due to chest pain that was typical in nature, retrosternal and radiating to the left arm and neck. He denied any exertional chest pain. It is unclear if the patient was pain free at this time. He has a medical hx notable for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and previous tobacco use disorder.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This ECG was recorded on arrival in the ED: Here is the interpretation of the conventional algorithm (Veritas): SINUS BRADYCARDIA ST ELEVATION, PROBABLY EARLY REPOLARIZATION [ST ELEVATION WITH NORMALLY INFLECTED T-WAVE] BORDERLINE ECG What do you think? Regional wall motion abnormality-apical septum and inferior wall.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The relationship between low RHR and CI has yet to be described.Purpose:We hypothesize that resting sinus bradycardia (low RHR) could be a predictor of chronotropic incompetence and reduced exercise capacity.Methods:The derivation cohort consists of 201 patients with normal Bruce protocol treadmill stress echocardiogram. x age in years).Results:The

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The patient with no prior cardiac history presented in the middle of the night with acute chest pain, and had this ECG recorded during active pain: I did not see any ischemia on this electrocardiogram. Their apparently excessive length (QT interval) is due to bradycardia. This is a case I had quite a while back.

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Ken Grauer, MD

AUGUST 26, 2023

I see the following: The rhythm is sinus bradycardia at ~55-60/minute. PEARL # 2: Applying PEARL #1 to today's case — the fact that this patient's symptoms began before ECG #1 was obtained, and that his chest pain had resolved by the time ECG #1 was recorded — strongly suggests that the "culprit" artery may have spontaneously opened.

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Ken Grauer, MD

JUNE 2, 2023

to 1828 msec. ) — which corresponds to a variation in the rate of sinus bradycardia from 36-to-33/minute. This makes sense given that the underlying rhythm in today's case appears to be marked sinus bradycardia and arrhythmia , with a ventricular escape rhythm appearing when the SA node rate drops below 33/minute.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 16, 2022

This middle aged male with h/o GERD but also h/o stents presented to the ED with chest pain. The computer called "Sinus Bradycardia" only (implying that everything else is normal. The overreading Cardiologist called it only "Sinus Bradycardia" with no other findings. There is zero ST Elevation.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Later, I found old ECGs: 5 month prior in clinic: V5 and V6 look like OMI 9 months prior in clinic with no chest symptoms: V5 and V6 look like OMI 1 year prior in the ED with chest pain: V5 and V6 sure look like a STEMI For this ECG and chest pain in the ED, the Cath lab activated. But the angiogram was clean.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

He arrived to the ED by helicopter at 1507, about three hours after the start of his chest pain while chopping wood around noon. He arrived to the ED by ambulance at 1529, only a half hour after the start of his chest pain around 1500 while eating. Angiography revealed a 30% nonobstructive stenosis of the mid LAD.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

A 40-something male with no previous cardiac disease presented with chest pain. The pain continued and the first high sensitivity troponin I returned at 105 ng/L Another ECG was recorded: The ST segment in aVF has flattened a bit, revealing that there is some STD in addition to the non-specific findings in III and aVL.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

This ECG could easily be seen in an ED chest pain patient, and I have seen many) What do you think? Description Sinus bradycardia. Comment I (Smith) have seen many similar ECGs in ED chest pain patients. I have seen this innumerable times in chest pain patients in the Emergency Department.

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Ken Grauer, MD

OCTOBER 13, 2023

She was hemodynamically stable — and did not have chest pain, lightheadedness or syncope. Even if we stopped here — We could conclude the following: There is marked bradycardia in today's rhythm ( ie, Heart rate in the low 30s ). QUESTIONS: HOW would you interpret the rhythm in Figure-1 ? Is this " high -grade" AV block?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 5, 2022

He denied any chest pain or shortness of breath and stated he felt at his baseline yesterday prior to drug use. They recommended repeating his ECG and awaiting troponin since the patient did not have any chest pain. He complained of generalized weakness and left lower extremity numbness. What is it? Activate the Cath Lab?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He woke up alert and with chest pain which he also had experienced intermittently over the previous few days. The history in today's case with sudden loss of consciousness followed by chest pain is very suggestive of ACS and type I ischemia as the cause of the ECG changes. What do you think?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

He did not have chest pain. Chest pain in high risk patient. Syncope and Bradycardia Syncope in a 20-something woman Long QT: Do not trust the computerized QT interval when the QT is long An Alcoholic Patient with Syncope Cardiac Arrest. Here is his triage ECG: What do you think? Is it STEMI? What is going on here?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A middle-aged woman with a history of hypertension presented with typical chest pain. Here was her presenting ECG, with chest pain: Inferior leads show hyperacute T-waves and reciprocal STD in aVL, with a reciprocally hyperacute T-wave in aVL. Her BP was 160/80. This is all but diagnostic of inferior OMI.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Written by Jesse McLaren A 75 year old with a history of CABG called EMS after 24 hours of chest pain. There’s sinus bradycardia, normal conduction, normal axis, delayed R wave progression, and normal voltages. Sinus bradycardia.” paramedic transportation to the ED as “chest pain, STEMI negative” 2.

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Wellnest

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If you experience any symptoms, such as chest pain, dizziness, unusual tiredness or fatigue, shortness of breath, or irregular heartbeat, your doctor would want you to go for an ECG test to find out the underlying cause. A fast heartbeat is called tachycardia, while a slow heartbeat is called bradycardia in medical terms.

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Ken Grauer, MD

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The rhythm is sinus bradycardia at a rate just over 50/minute. Although difficult to measure ( because of marked overlap of the QRS in multiple chest leads ) — there appears to be greatly increased QRS amplitude, consistent with voltage for LVH. To improve visualization — I've digitized the original ECG using PMcardio ).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 21, 2024

The patient in today’s case is a previously healthy 40-something male who contacted EMS due to acute onset crushing chest pain. The pain was 10/10 in intensity radiating bilaterally to the shoulders and also to the left arm and neck. Written By Magnus Nossen — with edits by Ken Grauer and Smith. The below ECG was recorded.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Apparently he denied chest pain. JAMA 2000) showed that 1/3 of patients with STEMI, and 1/3 of patients with NSTEMI, present without chest pain. Chest pain and Concordant ST Depression in a patient with aortic valve and previously normal angiogram Right Bundle Branch Block and ST Depression in V1-V3.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

ECG of pneumopericardium and probable myocardial contusion shows typical pericarditis Male in 30's, 2 days after Motor Vehicle Collsion, complains of Chest Pain and Dyspnea Head On Motor Vehicle Collision. Gunshot wound to the chest with ST Elevation Would your radiologist make this diagnosis, or should you record an ECG in trauma?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The chest pain quickly subsided. During the night, while on telemetry, the patient became bradycardic, with periods of isorhythmic AV dissociation (nodal escape rhythm alternating with sinus bradycardia), and there were sporadic PVCs. Are you worried about OMI in this case? His response was: "I would not call it OMI.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This is the initial ED ECG of a 46 year old male with chest pain: The QTc was 420 ST Elevation at 60 ms after the J-point in lead V3 = 2.5 ng/ml) A 45 year old male called 911 for chest pain: The QTc was 400 ST Elevation at 60 ms after the J-point in lead V3 = 3.5 100% LAD occlusion. He underwent CABG. QRS V2 = 15.5

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 26, 2023

The combination of absence of chest pain and history of LV aneurysm made it easy to assess that this patient does not have acute OMI. In view of the History with the current admission ( ie, presenting to the ED for vertigo — with no new chest pain ) — I interpreted ECG #1 as no OMI.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A 55 year old with no previous cardiac history presented with 3 hours of chest pain. The pain was persistent and reportedly still present at the time of the ECG. He has now implemented the Queen of Hearts in his hospital. He wanted to share one of the first cases. This will be corrected in Version 2, coming soon.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

days of chest pain that started as substernal and crushing in nature awakening him from sleep and occasionally traveling to right side of neck. The pain was described as constant, worse with deep inspiration and physical activity, sometimes sharp. He reported 1.5

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MARCH 24, 2023

Written by Jesse McLaren, with comments from Smith An 85 year old with a history of CAD presented with 3 hours of chest pain that feels like heartburn but that radiates to the left arm. There’s sinus bradycardia, first degree AV block, normal axis, delayed R wave progression, and normal voltages. Below is the ECG. Take home 1.

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