Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

Written by Pendell Meyers A man in his late 30s with history of hypertension, tobacco use, and obesity presented to the Emergency Department for acute chest pain which started approximately 3 hours prior to arrival, in the setting of a very stressful situation. The pain radiated down both arms, 10/10 in severity. He stated it did not feel like his prior episodes of reflux.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 20, 2024

(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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Ken Grauer, MD

JANUARY 20, 2024

I was sent the tracing shown in Figure-1 — told only that this was a preoperative ECG obtained from an asymptomatic older woman scheduled for non-cardiac surgery. How would YOU interpret this ECG? Would you approve her for surgery if the procedure was nonemergent? Figure-1: Preoperative ECG from an asymptomatic older woman scheduled for non-cardiac surgery.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 20, 2024

Patients on maintenance hemodialysis classified as having a high erythropoietin resistance index had a greater risk of all-cause mortality.

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American College of Cardiology

JANUARY 20, 2024

The RAFT trial sought to study the safety and efficacy of CRT-D, as compared with ICD alone in patients with mild to moderate symptoms (NYHA class II/III), LV systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction [EF] ≤30%), and wide QRS complex.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 20, 2024

In a new study, 31.9% of individuals with osteoporosis had depressive symptoms and 10% had probable depression.

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HeartRhythm

JANUARY 20, 2024

The motion relationship and time intervals of the pulsed-wave Doppler (PWD) spectrum are essential for diagnosing fetal arrhythmia (FA). However, few technologies are currently available to automatically calculate fetal cardiac time intervals (CTIs).

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