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A 50-something with chest pain.

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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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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. The patient continued having chest pain. These diagnoses were not found in his medical records nor even a baseline ECG.

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56 year old male had 5/10 chest pain for several hours, then presented to the ED in the middle of the night with 1/10 pain.

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A 56 year old male with PMHx significant for hypertension had chest pain for several hours, then presented to the ED in the middle of the night. He reported chest pain that developed several hours prior to arrival and was 5/10 in intensity. The pain was located in the mid to left chest and developed after riding his bike.

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Chest pain, and Cardiology didn't take the hint from the ICD

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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. J Am Heart Assoc.

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Chest pain and shock: Is there a right ventricular OMI on this ECG? And should he undergo trancutaneous pacing?

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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. What is the atrial activity?

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What are treatment options for this rhythm, when all else fails?

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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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12 Example Cases of Use of 3- and 4-variable formulas, plus Simplified Formula, to differentiate normal STE from subtle LAD occlusion

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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