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Critical Left Main

EMS 12-Lead

Category 1 : Sudden narrowing of a coronary artery due to ACS (plaque rupture with thrombosis and/or downstream showering of platelet-fibrin aggregates. It’s judicious, then, to arrange for coronary angiogram. Supply-demand mismatch (non-occlusive coronary disease, or exacerbation of preexisting flow insufficiency) a.

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Distractions

EMS 12-Lead

Vital signs were noted to be unremarkable with respect to any hypo-hypertensive crisis, hypoxia, etc. He denied any known medical history, specifically: coronary artery disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart failure, myocardial infarction, or any prior PCI/stent. Fire/EMS crews found him clammy and uncomfortable.

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90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Case submitted and written by Mazen El-Baba MD, with edits from Jesse McLaren and edits/comments by Smith and Grauer A 90-year old with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, presented with acute onset chest/epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. BP was 110 and oxygen saturation was normal.

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

It was edited by Smith CASE : A 52-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension and COPD summoned EMS with complaints of chest pain, weakness and nausea. The diagnostic coronary angiogram identified only minimal coronary artery disease, but there was a severely calcified, ‘immobile’ aortic valve.

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The Bleeding Heart

EMS 12-Lead

There is appreciable STE aVR with near-global STD that appropriately maximizes in Leads II and V5, and thus suggesting a circumstance of generic, diffusely populated, circumferential subendocardial ischemia versus occlusive coronary thrombus. [1] The patient was found to be hypertensive and treated accordingly. Does the ECG normalize?

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Pulmonary edema, with tachycardia and OMI on the ECG -- what is going on?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A 69 year old woman with a history of hypertension presented to the emergency department by EMS for evaluation of chest pain and shortness of breath. The status of the patients chest pain at this time is unknown : EKG 1, 1300: There is sinus tachycardia and artifact of low and high frequency. This was written by Hans Helseth.

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Which patient needs a CT scan?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Angiogram Door to balloon time was 120 minutes (much too long) because of time taken for a CT. Coronary angiogram showed 100% mid LAD occlusion for which she received a DES with excellent angiographic result. It was not SCAD (coronary dissection) Highest troponin I was 37,000 ng/L, but it was not measured to peak.