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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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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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A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

No family history of sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathy, premature CAD, or other cardiac issues. There is unfortunately no way to justify the sequence of events with resultant delay in diagnosis and treatment — and ultimate catastrophic infarction that rendered a previously healthy teenager a candidate for cardiac transplantation.

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A man in his 70s with weakness and syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient proceeded to cath where all coronaries were described as normal with no evidence of any CAD, spasm, or any other abnormality. In the largest study looking at this topic by Mizusawa et al., Recently the rate of true arrhythmic events related to fevers in the classic Brugada Type 1 syndrome was explored by Michowitz et al.

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A 40 year old man with chest pain since last night

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He also had non-acute CAD of the RCA (50%) and LCX (50%). CLICK HERE — for a brief article by Rowlands et al that explains these concepts in more detail. Cardiology was called and the patient was taken for urgent catheterization with the time from ED arrival to cath about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Cath images: Before intervention.

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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.