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SGEM#370: Listen to your Heart (Score)…MACE Incidence in Non-Low Risk Patients with known Coronary Artery Disease

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Major adverse cardiac event rates in moderate-risk patients: Does prior coronary disease matter? Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Chest pain and T wave inversion, NSTEMI?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Case submitted and written by Dr. Mazen El-Baba and Dr. Emily Austin, with edits from Jesse McLaren A 50 year-old patient presented to the Emergency Department with sudden onset chest pain that began 14-hours ago. The pain improved (6/10) but is persisting, which prompted him to visit the Emergency Department. Shroff, G.

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An undergraduate who is an EKG tech sees something. The computer calls it completely normal. How about the physicians?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Smith comment : Is the ACS (rupture plaque) with occlusion that is now reperfusing? Diagnosis of Type I vs. Type II Myocardial Infarction in Emergency Department patients with Ischemic Symptoms (abstract 102). Annals of Emergency Medicine 2011; Suppl 58(4): S211. Assuming that was indeed a culprit, then this was ACS.

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75 year old with 24 hours of chest pain, STEMI negative

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There were trends toward larger infarct size with delayed angiography, both by cMR and integral high-sensitivity troponin concentration, as well as toward higher rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) (8.5 vs. 2.9%; P  = 0.28) in the delayed group. paramedic transportation to the ED as “chest pain, STEMI negative” 2. Kontos et al.

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Chest pain and a computer ‘normal’ ECG. Therefore, there is no need for a physician to look at this ECG.

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, tells us that we physicians do not need to even look at this ECG until the patient is placed in a room because the computer says it is normal: Validity of Computer-interpreted “Normal” and “Otherwise Normal” ECG in Emergency Department Triage Patients I reviewed this article for a different journal and recommended rejection and it was rejected.

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A 50-something with chest pain.

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This was sent by anonymous The patient is a 55-year-old male who presented to the emergency department after approximately 3 to 4 days of intermittent central boring chest pain initially responsive to nitroglycerin, but is now more constant and not responsive to nitroglycerin. It is unknown when this pain recurred and became constant.

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A 50 year old man with sudden altered mental status and inferior STE. Would you give lytics? Yes, but not because of the ECG!

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On arrival to the PCI center's Emergency Department, the receiving team recorded an ECG on arrival: Persistent atrial flutter, however this time the QRS occurs on a slightly different portion of the flutter wave. No obvious adverse events were attributed to the thrombolytics. There was again no intracranial hemorrhage.

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