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Critical Left Main

EMS 12-Lead

David Didlake Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Firefighter / Paramedic (ret) @DidlakeDW Expert commentary and peer review by Dr. Steve Smith [link] @smithECGBlog A 57 y/o Female with PMHx HTN, HLD, DM, and current use of tobacco products, presented to the ED with chest discomfort. It’s judicious, then, to arrange for coronary angiogram.

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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

EMS 12-Lead

David Didlake Firefighter / Paramedic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner @DidlakeDW Peer review and commentary by Dr. Steve Smith [link] @SmithECGblog It is early-summer, approximately 1330 hours, no cloud cover overhead, and 86 degrees with high humidity. Type II MI), however decided to pursue coronary angiogram out of an abundance of caution.

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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This case reminds me of this 27 year old totally healthy nurse who was previously healthy, presented with acute pulmonary edema and the below ECG that is diagnostic of proximal LAD occlusion, and was dismissed because of her age. This gets drilled into them. The wall motion abnormalities of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and LAD OMI can be similar.