This ECG is from a 45 yr old female who presented after an episode of chest pain. She has no past medical history and takes no regular medications. She has a positive family history of cardiac disease. Click to enlarge Things to think about What are the key ECG features ? Powered by WPeMatico
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website. Transesophageal Echocardiography Essentials… Read more → Go to Source Author: Dr Mike Cadogan Powered by WPeMatico
This ECG is from a 50 yr old female who presented complaining of palpitations for the last few hours. She has no past medical history and takes no regular medications. Click to enlarge Rate: 156 bpm Rhythm: Regular Atrial activity very difficult to see Potential P wave visible in lead I just after T
Continuing in our month long discussion of point of care ultrasound (POCUS), we move to talking about patient understanding and satisfaction. This is all in conjunction with Practical POCUS which will be having courses at the end of this year. We have previously heard that the use of bedside ultrasound has helped with patient satisfaction, but a recent
This paper was just published: Noll S. et al. The utility of the triage electrocardiogram for the detection of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Am J Emerg Med 36(10):1771-1774. October 2018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675718300974 In this paper, in a department in which they state they have only 50 STEMI per year, they looked at only 8 days worth
This comes from Steffen Grautoff, who is an Emergency Physician and Cardiologist who works on the Emergency Vehicles in the Northwest of Germany. Steffen writes this case: “A few weeks ago I was able to recognize a STEMI because of what I had seen on your blog.”“I have enclosed the ECG from a 50-something year
Written by Pendell Meyers We walked in to an overnight shift with approximately 70 patients in the waiting room and a room full of sign-outs at midnight. At 3:55 AM during that kind of a night shift, this ECG (among many others) was brought from triage for review by my team. We knew only that
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia… Read more → Go to Source Author: Neil Long Powered by WPeMatico
This ECG is from a 50 yr old female who presented complaining of palpitations for the last few hours. She has no past medical history and takes no regular medications. Click to enlarge Things to think about What are the key ECG features ? Powered by WPeMatico
This was shown to me by a very astute Hennepin paramedic. Although this comes from a Hennepin paramedic, the patient was not brought to Hennepin County Medical Center.Another note:One person wrote on Twitter that he was dismayed by the “tribalism.” of this post. This is my reponse.“This is not tribalism. It is essential to point out
