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Four patients with chest pain and ‘normal’ ECG: can you trust the computer interpretation?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Jesse McLaren Four patients presented with chest pain. 4,5] We have now formally studied this question: Emergency department Code STEMI patients with initial electrocardiogram labeled ‘normal’ by computer interpretation: a 7-year retrospective review.[6] Hughes KE , Lewis SM , Katz L , Jones J. Acad Emerg Med.

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50-year old with chest pain, “no ischemic changes”

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Jesse McLaren A previously healthy 50 year-old presented with 24 hours of intermittent exertional chest pain, radiating to the arms and associated with shortness of breath. In a previously healthy patient with new and ongoing chest pain, this is concerning for acute occlusion of the first diagonal artery.

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A 50-something with chest pain. what to do? And get the PM Cardio app for your own use here!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

It is from a 50-something with chest pain: What do you think? Up until recently — all computerized ECG interpretation programs that I am aware of used standard millimeter-based STEMI critieria as the basis for determining which chest pain patients should "qualify" for prompt cath with PCI. This was sent to me by a friend.

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Cardiovascular disease development in COVID-19 patients admitted to a tertiary medical centre in Iran

The British Journal of Cardiology

Cardiovascular consultation had been requested for all of the patients based on their primary clinical examination, vital signs, and electrocardiogram (ECG). Manifestations of CVDs, such as chest pain, abnormal serum markers, unstable angina, myocardial infarction (MI), myocarditis, and new-onset hypertension, were documented.

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De Winter's T-waves are Not a Stable ECG condition. Upright T-waves in Posterior OMI are Distinct from de Winter's waves.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was just published in JAMA Internal Medicine: The de Winter Electrocardiogram Pattern Evolving From Hyperacute T Waves It reminded me that many believe, due to the assertions in the original de Winter's article, that de Winter's waves are stable. He was a 30-something with chest pain. Here is one case of a patient I saw.

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Why we need continuous 12-lead ST segment monitoring in Wellens' syndrome

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was a male in his 50's with a history of hypertension and possible diabetes mellitus who presented to the emergency department with a history of squeezing chest pain, lasting 5 minutes at a time, with several episodes over the past couple of months. Plan was for admission for chest pain workup. Patel DJ, et al.

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OMI-NOMI paradigm established as better than STEMI-NSTEMI with new article

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Meyers, Weingart and Smith published their OMI Manifesto — in which they extensively document the critically important concept that management of acute MI by separation into a “STEMI” vs “non-STEMI” classification is an irreversibly flawed approach. ST depression that is maximal in leads V2-to-V4.

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