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Viral symptoms, then acute chest pain and this ECG. What do you do?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He presented to the ED because he developed sudden severe, sharp, pleuritic (but not positional), substernal and left mid to lower chest pain. It could also be due to pericarditis or myocarditis, but I always say that "you diagnose pericarditis at your peril." Pericarditis? Learning Points: 1. What happens then?

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Our OMI Toolbox Application is out now !

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Additionally, the App also includes a chest pain section, namely EDACS risk score, which is already a well known and validated tool for the approach to acute chest pain (many thanks for its developers and their courtesy for letting us to use it in our App, Martin Than, MD; John Pickering, BSc, PhD, BA and Dylan Flaws, MSc, PhD).

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ECG Blog #376 — A 15yo with Fever.

Ken Grauer, MD

No chest pain. In a previously healthy adolescent ( who is 15 years old in today's case ) — the presentation of an acute febrile illness that is without a complaint of chest pain, is highly unlikely to be due to an acute MI. He was hemodynamically stable. How would YOU interpret the ECG in Figure-1 ?

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