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A woman in her 50s with multiple episodes of syncope

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EMS reports intermittent sinus tachycardia and bradycardia secondary to some type of heart block during transport. It is hard to make out P waves but you can see them best in V2, and notches in the T waves in other leads - this is a sinus tachycardia with a very long PR interval indicating first degree block.

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Head Up Tilt Test (HUTT)

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Sometimes, head up tilt test, also known in short as HUTT, is also done for the evaluation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, a condition in which there is tachycardia on standing up, without a fall in blood pressure. Second is cardioinhibitory response, in which there is bradycardia, but no hypotension.

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

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Here was his initial ED ECG: There is sinus tachycardia at a rate of about 140 There is profound ST Elevation across all precordial leads, as well as I and aVL. I said I think there is a fixed stenosis in the LAD and the tachycardia and stress caused a type 2 STEMI.

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Cath Lab occupied. Which patient should go now (or does only one need it? Or neither?)

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Angiography revealed a 30% nonobstructive stenosis of the mid LAD. He had multiple episodes of bradycardia and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. There was a 70% culprit stenosis of the first obtuse marginal branch in a right dominant system. Patient 1 remained in the hospital overnight.

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Diffuse ST depression, and ST elevation in aVR. Left main, right?

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found that such ECG findings only represented left main ACS in 14% of such ECGs: Only 23% of patients with the aVR STE pattern had any LM disease (fewer if defined as 50% stenosis). In my experience, Ive seen U waves not only with low K+/low Mg++ but also in patients with bradycardia, LVH, and sometimes in normal subjects.

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A 40-Something male with a "Seizure," Hypotension, and Bradycardia

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Both of these features make inferior + RV MI by far the most likely ( Pseudoanteroseptal MI is another name for this ) There is also sinus bradycardia and t he patient is in shock with hypotension. A narrow complex bradycardia without any P-waves is also likely to respond to atropine, as it may be a junctional rhythm.

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

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Angiography : LMCA — 90-99% osteal stenosis. LCx — 50-69% stenosis of the 1st marginal branch; with 100% distal LCx occlusion. This progressed to electrical storm , with incessant PolyMorphic Ventricular Tachycardia ( PMVT ) and recurrent episodes of Ventricular Fibrillation ( VFib ). The image shows the impella device in place.