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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She denied chest pain and denied feeling any palpitations, even during her triage ECG: What do you think? She was awake, alert, well perfused, with normal mental status and overall unremarkable physical exam except for a regular tachycardia, possible rales at both bases, some mild RUQ abdominal tenderness.

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Two patients with RBBB

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Case 2: sent by Dr. James Alva A man in his 50s with diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented to the ED with chest pain and shortness of breath off and on over the past three days, with associated vomiting. M y T HOUGHTS on E CG # 1 — The patient in Case #1 was a 60-something woman with acute dyspnea, but no chest pain.

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ECG Blog #472 — At Least 4 Major Findings

Ken Grauer, MD

The ECG in Figure-1 was obtained from a middle-aged man who presents to the ED ( E mergency D epartment ) with 6 hours of chest pain. Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case obtained from a middle-aged man with 6 hours of chest pain. ( He is hemodynamically stable. However, Atropine is not benign.

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