2023 Documentation/Coding EKG/ECG 
Ken Grauer, MD
JULY 29, 2023
The ECG in Figure-1 was obtained from an 18-year old woman — who moments before been resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. How would YOU interpret her post-resuscitation ECG? Does this ECG in Figure-1 provide clue(s) to the etiology of this patient's cardiac arrest? QUESTIONS: In light of the above clinical history.
Ken Grauer, MD
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The ECG and long lead II rhythm strip in Figure-1 — was obtained from a COVID positive patient with persistent tachycardia not responding to Diltiazem. Figure-1: The initial ECG — obtained from a patient with persistent tachycardia. ( To improve visualization — I've digitized the original ECG using PMcardio ).
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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 2, 2025
She had an ECG recorded: This is left bundle branch block (LBBB), with appropriate proportional discordance. In the middle of the night, a "code" was called, and multiple rhythms like this were recorded. Here is one of the strips This is clearly polymorphic VT and probably torsade de pointes Subsequent ECGs. J Am Coll Cardiol.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 17, 2024
Pain improved to 1/10 after EMS administers 324 mg aspirin and the following EKG is obtained at triage. If this EKG were handed to you to screen from triage without any clinical information, what would you think? Do you appreciate any dynamic changes compared to the patient’s prior EKG? What do you think? In fact, Kosuge et al.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Below is old and then new ECG (old on top; new below). Both ECGs have normal sinus rhythm, normal conduction and normal voltages. Because of the ECG changes in a patient with chest pain, and with inferolateral hypokinesis on POCUS, the cath lab was activated. What do you think? But do they represent acute coronary occlusion?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 18, 2024
What do you think of the ECG, and does it matter? I sent this to the Queen of Hearts So the ECG is both STEMI negative and has no subtle diagnostic signs of occlusion. 2] This is because, contrary to Bayesian reasoning, the STEMI paradigm is named after and defined by one part of one test: ST elevation on ECG. But only 6.4%
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
All initial ECGs were labeled ‘normal’ or ‘otherwise normal’ by the computer interpretation, and below are the ECGs with the final cardiology interpretation. 1-3] But these studies were very short duration and used cardiology interpretation of ECGs or emergent angiography rather than patient outcomes.
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