Chest Pain Related Topics 
ECG Cases
APRIL 2, 2024
In this ECG Cases blog, Jesse McLaren and Rajiv Thavanathan explore how ECG and POCUS complement each other for patients presenting to the emergency department with shortness of breath or chest pain. The post ECG Cases 49 – ECG and POCUS for Dyspnea and Chest Pain appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
This was sent by anonymous The patient is a 55-year-old male who presented to the emergency department after approximately 3 to 4 days of intermittent central boring chest pain initially responsive to nitroglycerin, but is now more constant and not responsive to nitroglycerin. It is unknown when this pain recurred and became constant.
Heart Sisters
JULY 28, 2024
Heart patients with persistent or recurrent post-stent chest pain present “an unmet clinical need”, according to the European Journal of Cardiology.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
2 middle aged males presented with chest pain. Which had the more severe chest pain at the time of the ECG? Patient 2 at the bottom with a very subtle OMI complained of 10/10 chest pain at the time the ECG was recorded. 414 patients were included in the analysis.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 7, 2024
Written by Jesse McLaren A 45-year-old presented with 24 hours of intermittent chest pain. On it’s own this is nonspecific, but in the right context this could be diagonal occlusion (if active chest pain) or infero-posterior reperfusion (if resolved chest pain). #2 Can you guess the sequence?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 27, 2024
Written by Jesse McLaren, with a very few edits by Smith A 60-year-old presented with chest pain. Inferior hyperacute T waves, which have been added to the 2022 ACC consensus on chest pain as a “STEMI equivalent”[3] 3. But are there any other signs of Occlusion MI? Conduction disorders in the setting of acute STEMI.
Ken Grauer, MD
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
For example, considering whatever symptoms that the patient may have had ( ie, chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, etc. ) — what this might mean in view of the ECG we are looking at. STEP #2 = Clinical Impression — in which we correlate our assessment that we made in Step #1 to the clinical situation at hand.
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