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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Hopefully a repeat echocardiogram will be performed outpatient. See these publications for more information Overall, management for cardiac contusion is mostly supportive unless surgical complications develop, involving appropriate treatment of dysrhythmias and hemodynamic instability. 1900: RBBB and LAFB are almost fully resolved.

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Back to basics: what is this rhythm? What are your options for treating this patient?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

But adenosine only lasts for seconds, and if the dysrhythmia recurs, then the adenosine is gone. Prevent the initiation of the dysrhythmia -- this can be done with a beta blocker by prenenting PACS 2. She had an echocardiogram which was normal. Smith: should we give adenosine again? Adenosine worked. It converted the rhythm.

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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

With this test, an echocardiogram is done at rest to study the pumping ability of the heart. The heart is an electrical organ and occasionally the electrics can choose to malfunction and the patient may develop a heart rhythm disturbance or a dysrhythmia such as AF or SVT or VT. You can only diagnose it in retrospect.

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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Post by Smith, with short article by Angie Lobo ( [link] ), a third year intermal medicine resident at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Case A 30-something woman with no past history, who is very fit and athletic, presented with 1.5 It was late evening and the patient will be in the hospital overnight with a potentially very unstable LAD lesion.

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New Onset Heart Failure and Frequent Prolonged SVT. What is it? Management?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient was given furosemide and admitted to the hospital. Later, he underwent a formal echocardiogram: Very severe left ventricular enlargement (LVED diameter 7.4 A bedside POC cardiac ultrasound was done: Findings: Decreased left ventricular systolic function.

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

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A transthoracic echocardiogram showed an LV EF of less than 15%, critically severe aortic stenosis , severe LVH , and a small LV cavity. Author continued : STE in aVR is often due to left main coronary artery obstruction (OR 4.72), and is associated with in-hospital cardiovascular mortality (OR 5.58).

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Clinical predictors of cardiac syncope at initial evaluation in patients referred urgently to general hospital: the EGSYS score. Dysrhythmia, pacer), 4) valvular heart disease, 5) FHx sudden death, 6) volume depletion, 7) persistent abnormal vitals, 8) primary CNS event __ 3) Mendu ML et al. Del Rosso A, et al.