What do you need to consider when looking at an ECG in the setting of a TCA overdose? Better yet, what findings on an ECG suggest TCA ingestion? Learn more about TCAs on this edition of ECG Pointers.
ECG Pointers: TCA Overdose Read More »
Welcome to this week’s ECG Pointers, an emDOCs series designed to give you high yield tips about ECGs to keep your interpretation skills sharp. This week we discuss how to identify a posterior STEMI, which can commonly be mistaken as a NSTEMI.
ECG Pointers: Posterior MI Read More »
Welcome to this week’s ECG Pointers, an EMDocs series designed to give you high yield tips about ECGs to keep your interpretation skills sharp. This post is the second of a two part series looking at atrioventricular blocks.
ECG Pointers: AV blocks – Part II Read More »
Welcome to this week’s ECG Pointers, an EMDocs series designed to give you high yield tips about ECGs to keep your interpretation skills sharp. This post is one of two looking at atrioventricular blocks.
ECG Pointers: AV Blocks – Part I Read More »
Welcome to this week’s ECG Pointers, an EMDocs series designed to give you high yield tips about ECGs to keep your interpretation skills sharp. This post looks at hyperacute T waves.
ECG Pointers: Hyperacute T-Waves Read More »
Free Open Access Medical Education has produced a revolution in EM education, with hundreds of blogs and podcasts. FOAMed allows providers to rapidly stay abreast of the literature, while improving patient care. This is the beginning of a series evaluating FOAMed resources for learners, depending on subject matter. Today’s post will evaluate electrocardiogram (ECG) resources.
FOAMed Resource Series Part I: The ECG Read More »
Treatment of STEMI is straightforward, but the treatment of NSTEMI is not as clear-cut! This post will review the risk stratification and treatment of patients with NSTEMI.
Current ED Management of Non-ST Segment Elevation MI (NSTEMI): A Practice Update Read More »
Welcome to the third blog post in a series on subtle ECG findings in ACS. This post about mimics: benign early repolarization (BER) and the anterior STEMI. Each of these can mimic the other. The problem is that one of these diagnoses is deadly and the other is a normal variant.
Subtle ECG Findings in ACS: Part III Benign Early Repolarization vs. Anterior STEMI Read More »
What if you could identify a patient with complete coronary vessel occlusion almost immediately after it occurs, before the ST segments begin to elevate? What if you could pick up the very subtle, early MI? We know that early recognition and intervention improves outcomes in patients with coronary artery occlusion. Sometimes patients presenting with ACS are obvious. Sometimes it seems that the patient has read the textbook. However, more often than not, patients are not obvious, especially in the early stages of ACS. That is why we are concerning ourselves with subtlety.
Subtle ECG findings in ACS: Part II Hyperacute T-Waves Read More »
ECG interpretation is one of the most important skills to master as an emergency physician, and its interpretation can be very complex and frustrating. ECG manifestations can be very subtle, and sometimes the earliest and only ECG change seen will be reciprocal changes alone.
R.E.B.E.L. EM – The Importance of Reciprocal Changes in aVL Read More »
