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Magnetocardiography at rest predicts cardiac death in patients with acute chest pain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction Sudden cardiac arrest is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and remains a major public health problem for which better non-invasive prediction tools are needed. The individual relationship between fatal arrhythmias and cardiac function abnormalities in predicting cardiac death risk has rarely been explored.

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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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. Cardiac function is poor, with akinesis of the LAD territory.