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A 50-something with chest pain. Is there OMI? And what is the rhythm?

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Written by Willy Frick A man in his 50s with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a 30 pack-year smoking history presented to the ER with 1 hour of acute onset, severe chest pain and diaphoresis. His ECG is shown: What do you think? That is, until the 7th R wave which comes a little bit sooner than expected. What do you think?

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Three normal high sensitivity troponins over 4 hours with a "normal ECG"

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Written by Willy Frick A 46 year old man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to urgent care with complaint of "chest burning." The documentation does not describe any additional details of the history. The ECG shows sinus bradycardia but is otherwise normal. They also documented "Reproducible chest tenderness."

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A Patient with Vertigo

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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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Inferior Subtle ST elevation: straight ST segment, but also no reciprocal ST depression in aVL: which is more important?

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60-something with h/o MI and stents presented with chest pain radiating to the back and nausea/vomiting. This is sinus bradycardia. In this patient with documented coronary disease — these q waves could reflect prior lateral infarction ( especially in view of the Q in lead aVL ). Time zero What do you think? Pericarditis?

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Tachycardia, fever to 105, and ischemic ST Elevation -- a Bridge too Far

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If a patient presents with chest pain and a normal heart rate, or with shockable cardiac arrest, then ischemic appearing ST elevation is STEMI until proven otherwise. CLICK HERE — for the ESC/ACC/AHA/WHF 2018 Consensus Document on the 4th Universal Definition of MI, in which these concepts are discussed and illustrated.

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46 year old with chest pain develops a wide complex rhythm -- see many examples

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Written by Colin Jenkins and Nhu-Nguyen Le with edits by Willy Frick and by Smith A 46-year-old male presented to the emergency department with 2 days of heavy substernal chest pain and nausea. He had no previously documented medical problems except polysubstance use. The patient continued having chest pain.

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75 year old with 24 hours of chest pain, STEMI negative

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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.