STEMI

Results:
Weekly Workout June 1, 2015
STAT ECG Diagnoses: MI in LBBB

Weekly Workout May 25, 2015
ECG Basics & Fundamentals: you don’t always need ST segment elevation to benefit from acute reperfusion therapy

HPI: A 75-year-old male with a history of hypertension presents to the ED with substernal chest pressure. There is no associated diaphoresis or nausea. The following ECG was obtained. Case…

Weekly Workout April 20, 2015
ECG cases from Baltimore City EMS

Weekly Workout February 16, 2015
Literature Review: ECG computer interpretations and review of STEMI criteria

HPI: A 45-year-old male is en route to your hospital by EMS with chest pain. EMS has transmitted this ECG to you from the field, with suspicion of STEMI. Case ECG…

Weekly Workout January 26, 2015
ECG Basics & Fundamentals: “just because electrocardiography is a basic skill in medicine, doesn’t mean that our ECG skills should be basic”

HPI: 43-year-old male presents with mid-sternal chest tightness. History is otherwise limited. Vitals: HR-110, otherwise normal vitals. Case ECG

Weekly Workout January 19, 2015
Literature Review: age as a cardiac risk factor, what age is too young to have a myocardial infarction (MI)?

HPI: 25-year-old male smoker presents with left arm and upper back pain. He also has mild epigastric pain, associated with vomiting x 4 episodes. Vitals: HR-100, BP-110/70, RR-22, SpO2-100%, afebrile….

Weekly Workout January 12, 2015
Differential Diagnoses: how to use ECG differentials to clinch the diagnosis in sick patients

HPI: 64-year-old male smoker with a Hx of HTN, DM, COPD presents with lightheadedness and chest tightness. He has had flu like symptoms for the past week, that have been…

Weekly Workout January 5, 2015
ECG Basics & Fundamentals: A stepwise approach to ECG interpretation in patients with chest pain and clinical concern for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with pearls and pitfalls in obtaining chest pain histories

HPI: 61 year old male with significant cardiac risk factors presents with chest pain that that radiates down both arms. The pain is exertional and improves with rest. His pain…

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