Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2024

There are multiple possible clinical situations that could account for diffuse subendocardial ischemia that is not due to ACS and plaque rupture. On arrival in the emergency department, invasive blood pressure was 35/15mmHg and the patient was in profound cardiogenic shock with severe confusion secondary to brain hypoperfusion.

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Cardiogenic Shock Ischemia Chest Pain Cardiac Arrest 128

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The notes now refer to the patient being in cardiogenic shock, on pressors. hours from presentation, where he was found to have an acute thrombotic LAD occlusion which was stented with resulting TIMI 3 flow, but still the patient was in severe cardiogenic shock. Time = 3 hours: the next troponin returns at 60 ng/L.

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Chest Pain Cardiogenic Shock Ischemia Myocardial Infarction 82

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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Aortic valve Myocardial Infarction Aortic Blood Pressure 103

EMS 12-Lead

JULY 24, 2023

Category 1 : Sudden narrowing of a coronary artery due to ACS (plaque rupture with thrombosis and/or downstream showering of platelet-fibrin aggregates. elevated BP), but rather directly correlated with coronary obstruction (due to plaque rupture and thrombosis) and, potentially, stymied TIMI flow. This results in Type I MI.

Angina 52

Angina Ischemia Coronary Angiogram Stenosis 52

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MARCH 25, 2024

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Education Cardiogenic Shock Heart Failure Plaque 59

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Why is the patient in shock? He was in profound cardiogenic shock. He was taken to the cath lab and underwent emergent intervention: Thrombotic stenosis of the proximal RCA (95% with evidence of plaque rupture) is the culprit for the patient's inferoposterior STEMI. There is an obvious inferior STEMI, but what else?

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Bradycardia Cardiogenic Shock STEMI Ischemia 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here’s the angiogram of the RCA : No thrombus or plaque rupture in the RCA (or any coronary artery) was found. This MI wasn’t caused by a ruptured plaque of CAD - it was a coronary artery dissection of the RCA. were pretty sick, with mostly LM/pLAD lesions and high rates of cardiogenic shock. Lobo et al.

Chest Pain 52

Chest Pain SCAD STEMI Cardiogenic Shock 52