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Noisy, low amplitude ECG in a patient with chest pain

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Colin is an emergency medicine resident beginning his critical care fellowship in the summer with a strong interest in the role of ECG in critical care and OMI. They had difficulty describing their symptoms, but complained of severe weakness, nausea, vomiting, headache, and chest pain. Edits by Willy Frick.

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Tachycardia must make you doubt an ACS or STEMI diagnosis; put it all in clinical context

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This 54 year old patient with a history of kidney transplant with poor transplant function had been vomiting all day when at 10 PM he developed severe substernal crushing chest pain. ACS and STEMI generally do not cause tachycardia unless there is cardiogenic shock. He had this ECG recorded. Are the lungs clear?

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Chest discomfort, Sinus Tachycardia, Q-waves, ST Elevation, and Intermittent Wide Complex Tachycardia. Activate the Cath Lab?

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This was my response: If it is the right clinical situation, such as acute chest discomfort, it looks like proximal left anterior descending occlusion with right bundle branch block and left anterior fascicular block. Because of the tachcardia, I would expect her to be very poor left ventricular function and maybe Cardiogenic shock.