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20-something with huge verapamil overdose and cardiogenic shock

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A 20-something presented after a huge verapamil overdose in cardiogenic shock. And she does not know that this is an overdose; she thinks it is a patient with chest pain!! Today's patient is a young male who presented in cardiogenic shock following a massive verapamil overdose. The initial K was 3.0

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American College of Cardiology ACC.24 Late-breaking Science and Guidelines Session Summary

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ET Main Tent (Hall B1) Self-expanding Versus Balloon-expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Small Aortic Annuli: Primary Outcomes from the Randomized Smart Trial Effect of Edetate Disodium Based Chelation Infusions on Cardiovascular Events in Post-MI Patients with Diabetes: The TACT2 Trial Long-term Beta-blocker Treatment (..)

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I'm so sorry when medics get abused for activating the cath lab

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The ER physician was pretty rudeto me for calling an activation, but wouldn’t educate me on what I may have been misinterpreting. He went into cardiogenic shock and is intubated in the cardiac ICU. Both the patient and his wife attributed it to spicy food a couple hours prior, and I had to talk him in to being transported.