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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

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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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An adolescent with trauma, chest pain, and a wide complex rhythm

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He was discharged and schedule for an outpatient echo which has not been done yet. Accelerated idioventricular rhythm in newborns: a worrisome but benign entity with or without congenital heart disease Here are other examples of Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm, Usually a Reperfusion "Dysrhythmia" I saw this on the computer.

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A man in his 30s with cardiac arrest and STE on the post-ROSC ECG

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Then there is loss of pulses with continued narrow complex on the monitor ("PEA arrest") Learning Points: Sudden witnessed Cardiac Arrest due to ACS is almost always due to dysrhythmia. When the ECG differential is between OMI on the one hand, and PE/type II OMI on the other, the absence of VT/VF strongly favors PE.