Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 6, 2023
Submitted and written by Anonymous, edits by Meyers and Smith A 50s-year-old patient with no known cardiac history presented at 0045 with three hours of unrelenting central chest pain. The pain was heavy, radiated to her jaw with an associated headache. Triage VS: 135/65 mmHg, 95 bpm, 94% on room air, 16/min, 98.6 F Triage ECG: ECG Interpretation: Sinus rhythm with normal QRS.
MIBHS
JANUARY 4, 2023
The heart is the symbol of love, affection, and intimacy for many. However, not everyone knows much about the actual the heart’s structure. What is the difference between a valve and a chamber? What are the major arteries and veins? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, then this is blog is going to answer all of your questions about the heart’s structure.
Cardiomatics
JANUARY 5, 2023
An increasing workload, stress, and a huge feeling of responsibility for patients’ lives. Sound familiar? Manual ECG analysis is a traditional and widely used method for Holter ECG examination. The results of such analysis mainly depend on the knowledge, skills, and vigilance of the doctor carrying it out. However, cardiologists and other healthcare professionals are exposed to a lot of stress and time pressure, which can sometimes lead to unintentional mistakes.
Open Heart
JANUARY 3, 2023
Background Angiographic parameters can facilitate the risk stratification of coronary lesions but remain insufficient in the prediction of future myocardial infarction (MI). AIMS We compared the ability of humans, angiographic parameters and deep learning (DL) to predict the lesion that would be responsible for a future MI in a population of patients with non-significant CAD at baseline.
ECG Cases
JANUARY 2, 2023
Understanding why ETCO2 is recommended in cardiac arrest with Swami, practical steps to organ donation in the ED with Dr. Andrew Healy, using your hospital food court to treat paraphimosis, rectal prolapse and food bolus obstruction with Dr. Sarah Foohey, QI Corner with Dr. Tahara Bhate, 4 Medicolegal Myths with Dr. Jennifer C. Tang on this month's EM Quick Hits podcast.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
DECEMBER 31, 2022
31st December 2022 Before laying into the drug regulators, and their inexorable move towards the dark side, I thought I should try to explain a bit more about who decides what drugs should be used, and for what conditions. Yes, I know, for most people this appears simple. The Federal Drugs Administration (FDA), in the US, or the European Medicines Agency (EMA), for the European Union, approve drugs for use in human beings, and that’s pretty much that.
Dr. Anish Koka
JANUARY 1, 2023
Myopericarditis is a now a well reported complication associated with Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) vaccinations. This has been particularly common with the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines (BNT162b2 and mrna-1273), with a particular predilection for young males. Current guidance by the Australian government “technical advisory groups” as well as the Australian Cardiology Society suggest patients who have experienced myocarditis after an mRNA vaccine may consider a non-mRNA vaccine once “
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ECG Cases
JANUARY 2, 2023
Based on a blend of number of listens, feedback from listeners, website visits and my personal faves, here is EM Cases Top 10 of 2022. The post Top 10 of 2022 – EM Cases Podcasts & Blogs Highlights of the Year appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.
Open Heart
JANUARY 3, 2023
Background Athlete’s heart is a condition of exercise-induced cardiac remodelling. Adult male endurance athletes more often remodel beyond reference values. The impact of sex on remodelling through adolescence remains unclear. Paediatric reference values do not account for patient sex or exercise history. We aimed to study the effect of sex on cardiac remodelling throughout adolescence.
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