Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a 30-something healthy patient presented with COVID pneumonia who presented to the ED. A bedside cardiac ultrasound was normal, with no effusion. A bedside cardiac ultrasound was normal, with no effusion. An elevated troponin in a COVID patient confers about 4x the risk of mortality than a normal one.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

MARCH 21, 2025

We evaluated the association between social vulnerability and a composite of myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, venous thromboembolism, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and death, following discharge, using Cox regression models.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 15, 2025

p=0.025), in the COVID-19 pandemic group of STEMI patients, compared to the pre-pandemic subset. We also observed an increase in in-hospital mortality (7.85% vs. 14.09%, p=0.033) and incidence of cardiogenic shock/cardiac arrest (16.62% vs. 26.85%, p=0.009). vs. median 5h; IQR 2.024.0, vs. median 115.0; IQR 73.0233.0,

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 21, 2023

Clinical questions : Is this an occlusion myocardial infarction and does the patient need the cath lab? Prominent J waves and ventricular fibrillation caused by myocarditis and pericarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. Internat J Arrhyth 2020 Uesako H, Fukikawa H, Hashimoto S, et al.

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