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ECG Blog #457 — Is Anything Conducting?

Ken Grauer, MD

I was sent the ECG shown in Figure-1 — told only that that it was from an acutely ill patient on a ventilator, who was being evaluated for bradycardia. His providers thought this rhythm was complete AV block. QUESTIONS: How would you interpret the ECG in Figure-1 ? Is the rhythm complete AV block? Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case. ( To improve visualization — I've digitized the original ECG using PMcardio ).

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Chest (or abdominal?) pain and ECG artifact.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

An elderly woman presented with one day of chest and right arm pain, and also abdominal pain. There was associated tingling and numbness in the right hand and generalized weakness, worse on the right side. A triage ECG was recorded: Smith : there is widespread artifact, except in lead III. Since lead III is not artifactual, one can deduce that t he artifact is caused by movement of the right arm electrode, so that electrode should be moved and the ECG re-recorded.

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Medications to Reduce Lipoprotein(a); Genome Models and CVD Risk

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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Meta-Analysis Supports Potential Use of Ketamine for PTSD, OCD

HCPLive

A recent study suggests ketamine can significantly improve symptoms of PTSD and OCD—but this is based on a review of an insufficient number of randomized controlled trials.

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DAPT for heart patients (or why you should postpone that pedicure appointment)

Heart Sisters

My first exposure to the "excessive bleeding" side effects of my new cardiac meds after hospital discharge came during a pedicure appointment a few weeks after I came home.

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Country-Level Socioeconomic Status, Healthcare Impact AKI Outcomes in Cirrhosis

HCPLive

Kavish Patidar, DO, explains how socioeconomic status and healthcare delivery impact outcomes in patients with acute kidney injury and cirrhosis.

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Angiography-Derived Fractional Flow Reserve: Newer Data and Future Directions

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Dimitrios Strepkos, Jaskanwal Deep Singh Sara, Pedro E.P. Carvalho, Michaella Alexandrou, Deniz Mutlu, Ozgur S. Ser, Arnold H. Seto, William F. Fearon, Bavana V. Rangan, Olga C. Mastrodemos, Sandeep Jalli, Konstantinos Voudris, M. Nicholas Burke, Yader Sandoval, Emmanouil S.

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Prevalence and Prognostic Impact of Diabetes in Takotsubo Syndrome: Insights from the Tokyo Cardiovascular Care Unit Network Registry

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Yukihiro Watanabe, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Kenshiro Arao, Toshiaki Isogai, Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Toru Egashira, Yoichi Imori, Hiroki Mochizuki, Takeshi Yamamoto, Kuniya Asai, Shun Kohsaka, Morimasa Takayama

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Amateur Radio in Hospitals for Emergency Use!

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Recently, I came to know that major hospitals in Spokane, Washington have radio rooms attached to the Emergency Rooms. Routine use for them is for ambulance dispatch which occurs in the 150 MHz band, which is quite near amateur radio Very High Frequency (VHF) band. Hence it is possible to use same antenna setup in case of an emergency to use amateur radio for VHF band communications.

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Comparative Effectiveness of On-Pump Versus Off-Pump Coronary Surgical Revascularization Related to Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Santhosh K.G Koshy, Ajit K. Tharakan, Lekha K. George, Gregory F. Petroski, Martin H. Gregory, Jamie B. Smith, Taha Mansoor, Robin L.

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Long-Term Results of Transcatheter Intervention of Coarctation of the Aorta: A 12-Year Single-Centre Experience

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Ruitao Li, Qiao Li, Xiang Li, Yijian Li, Zhicheng Chen, Qianbei He, Zhen-gang Zhao, Yuan Feng

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Invasive Coronary Angiography versus Non-invasive CT Coronary Angiography as Preoperative Coronary Imaging for Valve Surgery

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Tulio Caldonazo, Hristo Kirov, Ivan Dochev, Johannes Fischer, Angelique Runkel, Marc Dewey, Rhanderson Cardoso, Ulf Teichgräber, Murat Mukharyamov, Stephanie Gräger, Torsten Doenst

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Detection of Aortic Arch Tears Using Epiaortic Ultrasound During Surgical Management of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Taylor Pickering, Kyle McCullough, Cody Dorton, Emily Shih, Austin Kluis, Jasjit Banwait, Swapnil Gupta, Madhura Kapil Shah, Julius Ejiofor, William Brinkman, Justin Schaffer, J.

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A Multicenter Evaluation of the Impact of Therapies on Deep Learning-based Electrocardiographic Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Markers

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Lovedeep S Dhingra, Veer Sangha, Arya Aminorroaya, Robyn Bryde, Andrew Gaballa, Adel H Ali, Nandini Mehra, Harlan M.

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The Impact of Active Ascertainment on Sex-Specific Differences in the Prevalence and Phenotype of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis: The SCAN-MP Study

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publication date: Available online 23 November 2024 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Nicholas Chan, Andrew J. Einstein, Sergio Teruya, Carlos Rodriguez, Stephen Helmke, Margaret Cuomo, Denisse Santana, Michelle Castillo, Dia Smiley, Natalia Sabogal, Sendy Lamour, Morgan Winburn, Denise Fine, Cinthia de Freitas, Cesia Gallegos Kattan, Edward J.

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