July 22, 2015 - County EM

Residency Life

In The Stretcher Instead Of Beside It

Welcome to my first blog post, otherwise known as The Space for a Longtime Repressed Writer. I approached our editors about writing some sort of “human interest/lessons learned” blog to complement the multitude of great educational posts and interesting ED cases in TOKC, sort of allowing your mind to “take Read more…

By Jay Khadpe MD, 9 yearsJuly 22, 2015 ago

Rhythm Nation - ECG

Rhythm Nation- July 2015 ANSWER

Here is the EKG: The first interpretation would be to figure out the differential diagnosis for a regularly irregular rhythm in coupled beats. Without looking into more rare causes of coupled beats, the common causes includes atrial bigeminy, ventricular bigeminy, second degree AV block, and atrial flutter with variable conduction. Read more…

By carmellig, 9 years ago