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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

Date: June 30th, 2022 Reference: McGinnis et al. Major adverse cardiac event rates in moderate-risk patients: Does prior coronary disease matter? Date: June 30th, 2022 Reference: McGinnis et al. Major adverse cardiac event rates in moderate-risk patients: Does prior coronary disease matter? Reference: McGinnis et al.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 94: GLP-1 Agonist Complications

EMDocs

GLP-1 agonists are also associated with improved ejection fraction, coronary blood flow, and cardiac output while reducing the risk of cardiovascular events, infarction size, and all-cause mortality. Adverse events are common in those using GLP-1 agonists, but the vast majority of these are minor. Take for example semaglutide.

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

However, a smooth tapering of the mid-RCA was seen, highlighted in red below: How do we explain the MI if no sign of CAD was found? This MI wasn’t caused by a ruptured plaque of CAD - it was a coronary artery dissection of the RCA. A study by Hassan et al. Lobo et al. Lobo et al. The SCAD cases in Lobo et al.

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See this "NSTEMI" go unrecognized for what it really is, how it progresses, and what happens

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A man in his 70s with past medical history of hypertension, dyslipidemia, CAD s/p left circumflex stent 2 years prior presented to the ED with worsening intermittent exertional chest pain relieved by rest. Hayakawa A, Tsukahara K, Miyagawa S, et al. Written by Nathanael Franks MD, reviewed by Meyers, Smith, Grauer, etc. Am J Emerg Med.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Takotsubo is a sudden event, not one with crescendo angina. Reference on Troponins: Xenogiannis I, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, et al. Just because you don't see hemodynamically significant CAD on angiogram does not mean it is not OMI. I need to innoculate you against the subsequent opinions below.

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

As I met the paramedics and cath team in the lab, I was ready to see severe coronary disease (CAD), but the vessels were non-obstructive. Dobutamine may be preferred in patients without severe hypotension who have high vascular resistance. -- De Backer D et al. Taglieri N, Marzocchi A, Saia F, et al. Richard, C; et al.

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LVH with anterior ST Elevation. When is it anterior STEMI?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Case history A middle-aged woman with a history of HTN, but no prior CAD, presented to the ED with chest pain. The criteria of Armstrong et al. One retrospective analysis by Armstrong et al. Electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy in chest pain patients: Differentiation from acute coronary ischemic events.

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