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Which patient has the more severe chest pain?

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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.

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Chest pain with serial ECGs – can you guess the sequence?

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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 What was the outcome and final diagnosis?

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A middle-aged man with acute chest pain.

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A 50-something male had onset of chest pain 1 hour prior to ED arrival. Endorses some associated SOB, but denies back pain, fever, cough, chills, leg swelling, or other new symptoms. It was tested on a large database of known outcomes and was more than twice as senstivity as STEMI criteria and much better than cardiologists.

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Chest pain with anterior ST depression: look what happens if you use posterior leads.

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Written by Jesse McLaren A 65 year old with a history of atrial flutter, CABG and end-stage renal disease on dialysis presented with 3 days of fluctuating chest pain, which was ongoing at triage. So a patient with high pretest probability (prior CABG with new chest pain), had new ECG changes showing posterior OMI.

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A man in his 50s with acute chest pain who is lucky to still be alive.

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Sent by Magnus Nossen MD, written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s, previously healthy, developed acute chest pain. The primary care physician there evaluated this patient and deemed the chest pain to be due to gastrointestinal causes. link] ] Outcome The patient emerged neurologically intact.

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Chest pain and computer ‘normal’ ECG. Wait for troponin? And what is the reference standard for ECG diagnosis? Cardiologist or outcome?

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Written by Jesse McLaren A 50 year old presented to triage with one hour of chest pain, and the following ECG labeled normal by the computer (GE Marquette SL) algorithm. They concluded, "Our findings increase confidence in the normal automated GE Marquette 12 SL ECG software interpretation to predict a benign outcome.

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

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Written by Jesse McLaren Four patients presented with chest pain. 1-3] But these studies were very short duration and used cardiology interpretation of ECGs or emergent angiography rather than patient outcomes. have published a number of warnings about the previous reassuring studies.[4,5] minutes).