VT mimics

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Weekly Workout November 20, 2023
Wide Complex Tachycardias: clues to VT mimics when the heart rate is too slow or the QRS complexes are too wide

An unknown aged female is being transported to the emergency department by EMS for altered mental status. She is agitated and slurring words. Vitals: 98/65, RR 24, HR 162.  The…

Weekly Workout November 6, 2023
Wide Complex Tachycardias: beware the many mimics of ventricular tachycardia

HPI: A 73-year-old woman with PMHx of HTN, DM, HLD presents to the emergency department with 2 days of vomiting, malaise, and indigestion with chest discomfort. The following ECG is…

Weekly Workout August 7, 2023
Post-cardiac arrest ECGs: evaluation of ischemia, dysrhythmias, and their mimics

A 55-year-old man presents to the emergency department with nonspecific chest pain. 20 minutes into his evaluation he is found to be diaphoretic and unresponsive in cardiac arrest with ventricular…

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