Chief Complaint: Chest Pain
First time seeing one of these, two weeks ago. Off to the cath lab for him!
(For the non-medical, that’s an acute MI–active heart attack–in progress. The big rounded convex lines look like tombstones for a reason.)
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First time seeing one of these, two weeks ago. Off to the cath lab for him!
(For the non-medical, that’s an acute MI–active heart attack–in progress. The big rounded convex lines look like tombstones for a reason.)
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That person is in big trouble. Yikes. What part of his heart is not infarcting?!
I’ve been doing CCU/ICU/internal med now for 3 weeks and can an UA/NSTEMI/STEMI admission in my sleep. Thank god for forms with the ACS orders pre-printed on them with handy little checkboxes.
Horrible that something modifiable if not at least partially preventable is so so common.
i aggree
You should not be posting records such as these online…
Anonymous–there is absolutely no identifiable data on that EKG.