Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 23, 2024

Given the presentation, the cardiologist stented the vessel and the patient returned to the ICU for ongoing critical care. However, he did not remember much from the day of the arrest. He did not remember whether he had experienced any chest pain. Two subsequent troponins were down trending.

Chest Pain 118

Chest Pain Cardiac Arrest Sudden Cardiac Death Blog 118

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2016

A late middle-aged man presented with one hour of chest pain. If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2 Crit Care Med. Setting: Multidisciplinary critical care unit.

STEMI 52

STEMI Myocardial Infarction Cardiac Arrest Arrhythmia 52

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. Steve, what do you think of this ECG in this Cardiac Arrest Patient?" What is it?

Chest Pain 52

Chest Pain Bradycardia Cardiac Arrest STEMI 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 28, 2012

A middle aged patient who was 3 weeks s/p STEMI came from cardiac rehab where he developed some chest pain, dyspnea and weakness on the treadmill. In the ED he had some continued chest pain and hypotension. In a report of 6 cases at our institution (Hennepin County Medical Center), 2 survived with cardiac surgery.

Chest Pain 40

Chest Pain STEMI Pericarditis Ultrasound 40