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Sunday, 07 December 2008 17:17 |
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ECG limb leads tracings from a middle-aged man with who went into cardiac arrest in his home. Chest compressions were started immediately and paramedics arrived quickly. He was resuscitated, and the prehospital ECG tracing showed STEMI. He was resuscitated, but went into another cardiac arrest during transport to the hospital. When presented in the ER, [...] |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 12:34 |
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Patient: Middle-aged man with no known cardiovascular diseases. Acute onset of pressing chest pain that he said developed gradually in intensity over three hours before he called 911. On their way in to the ER, the paramedics report that the patient suddenly becomes worse and more symptomatic, with severe dyspnoea, sinusbradycardia at around 40bpm and [...] |
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:22 |
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ECG description: Sinus rhythm Multiple premature ventricular complexes (PVC) with varying morphology, appearing in bigeminy pattern (one PVC per normal sinus beat) Left Bundle Branch Block due to QRS width 130ms, slurred rS complex in V1, broad R wave in V6. Left Axis Deviation. The axis is at approximately -45° Normal PR interval: 180 ms ECG comments: This is a sinus paced [...] |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 14:12 |
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Quick anamnesis: Multimorbid, polypharmaceutic elderly female person. Fatigued and gradually somnolent during the past days. Expresses no chest pain or palpitations when presented in the ER. Glasgow coma scale score is 14. The patient is hemodynamically and respiratory stable with normal SPO₂. Initial BT at admission is 90/50. She has a well known and late [...] |
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Written by Dr Smith
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:18 |
NSTEMI with subtle ST depression.
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