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Extreme shock and cardiac arrest in COVID patient

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is a 30-something healthy patient presented with COVID pneumonia who presented to the ED. An elevated troponin in a COVID patient confers about 4x the risk of mortality than a normal one. Assessment was severe sudden cardiogenic shock. Beware elevated troponins in COVID patients. He was moderately hypoxic.