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VF arrest at home, no memory of chest pain. Angiography non-diagnostic. Does this patient need an ICD? You need all the ECGs to know for sure.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient was treated as possible NSTEMI and underwent coronary angiography about 4 hours after presentation. TIMI 3 means the rate of passage of dye through the coronary artery is normal by angiography.) Given the presentation, the cardiologist stented the vessel and the patient returned to the ICU for ongoing critical care.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 010 | Cardiac disease in pregnancy

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Critical illness in pregnancy is remarkably rare given the somewhat bonkers system for reproduction that we seem to have evolved over the past million or years. Improved care of complex. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast.

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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Despite otherwise normal vital signs, she was appropriately triaged to the critical care area of the ED. Late Gadolinium enhancement: Multifocal scarring of the septum (including RV septum), basal anterior wall and transmural mid inferior region scarring - a non-CAD hyperenhacement pattern. RVEF 100 ml/m2.

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He had significant history of CAD with CABG x5, and repeat CABG x 2 as well as a subsequent PCI of the graft to the RCA (twice) and of the graft to the Diagonal. Crit Care Med. 1991 May;19(5):694-9 Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of potassium replacement infusions in critically ill patients. mmol/L (n = 26), 3.0

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