Sun.Nov 10, 2024

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ECG of the week 13th Nov 24

EMergucate

This week our patient is a 34yr old gentleman who presents to the ED with a 1 week history of chest pain and palpitations, his initial ECG is: His potassium and magnesium are borderline low so you …

EKG/ECG 52
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What does a final diagnosis of STEMI vs. NSTEMI depend upon?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Pendell Meyers, few edits by Smith A woman in her 70s was woken from sleep by midsternal chest pain radiating to left arm with nausea. EMS arrived and recorded this ECG: What do you think? Queen of hearts explainability image. Overall High confidence OMI. Smith : this is an "Active OMI". The artery is occluded at this point in time. The ECG shows sinus rhythm, normal QRS, and signs of inferoposterolateral OMI.

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The T in TORCH?

Pediatric Education

Patient Presentation A 9-day-old male came to clinic after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. Per the parents through an interpreter the baby was doing well. He was born to a G2P2 25 year old female who was from South America and had received some prenatal care there but not in the United States. She had presented to a local emergency room in labor, delivered and the mother and infant were transferred to a large medical center.