Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Bigeminy… Is that a New Zodiac Sign?
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Rhythm Nation – ECG
Everything you need to know about ECGs in the Emergency Department
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Characteristics of Typical Atrial Flutter
Author: Alec Feuerbach Peer Editor: Nicole Anthony Faculty Editor: Mark Silverberg This week we have two ECGs to examine. The first is the ECG of a 50-year-old woman who presented to the ED after experiencing uncomfortable palpitations and lightheadedness. ECG 1: This ECG shows a rapid ventricular rate of Read more…
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Interpreting a Paced Electrocardiographic Rhythm
Author: Nivedita Poola Peer Editors: Alec Feuerbach and Nicole Anthony Faculty Editor: Mark Silverberg Case A 72-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, CVA with residual right sided weakness and aphasia was admitted to the hospital from subacute rehabilitation after a recent subacute infarct. Read more…
Rhythm Nation - ECG
Understanding Right Bundle Branch Block Morphology
Author: Malithi Navarathna Peer Editors: Alec Feuerbach, Nicole Anthony Faculty Reviewer: Mark Silverberg A 24-year-old female with a past medical history of obesity and a “heart problem” during childhood presents to the ED complaining of palpitations and chest pain for one week. What is your analysis of this ECG? Read more…
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Rhythm Nation – Wellens Syndrome
Author: Karen Jeoffroy Peer Editors: Alec Feuerbach, Nicole Anthony Faculty Editor: Mark Silverberg Case A 75-year-old male with a history of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and coronary artery disease (on aspirin and clopidogrel) presents to the Emergency Department (ED) four hours after an episode of left-sided, non-radiating chest pain with associated Read more…
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Rhythm Nation April 2022: A Case of ECG ST-Elevations
Author: Zachary Moore Peer Editors: Alec Feuerbach, Nicole Anthony Faculty Editor: Mark Silverberg It is just another night at University Hospital of Brooklyn when a 70-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, COPD, and hypothyroidism comes in with altered mental status for the past few hours. Read more…
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A Case of a Disappearing (and then Reappearing) Left Bundle Branch Block – Part Two
Transient Bundle Branch Blocks Written by: Alec Feuerbach, MD Edited by: Robby Allen, MD; Antonia Quinn, DO Remember our case: a woman 60 years of age presented with chest pain and an ECG with a left bundle branch block (1,2). She was placed in observation where her bundle branch Read more…
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
A Case of a Disappearing (and then Reappearing) Left Bundle Branch Block
Written by: Alec Feuerbach, MD Edited by: Robby Allen, MD; Antonia Quinn, DO A 60(ish)-year-old woman presents to the ED describing an intermittent substernal chest pain that began the night before. She last experienced it again in the morning and has felt it intermittently in the ED. The pain is Read more…
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Rhythm Nation: December 2020 Answer – Going Beyond ST-Elevation in the Diagnosis of Occlusion MI (OMI)
Remember where we left off: you just spoke to a fifty-year-old woman describing severe, intermittent chest pain radiating to the back and left arm. You order aspirin and nitroglycerin, along with a troponin and you are now looking at her ECG: You note the rate is about 75 Read more…
Cardiovascular Rhythm Nation - ECG
Rhythm Nation: December 2020
Author: Alec Feuerbach MD Edited by Robby Allen MD (Thanks to Dr. Robby Allen for contributing this ECG) The Case: A 50-year-old woman with no history of cardiac disease presents with severe, intermittent chest pain radiating to the back and left arm with associated left arm numbness. She has Read more…