ECG Rule of Fours
ECG Rule of Fours - aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy...On your arrival in the ER, the emergency intern casually throws you the ECG.
ECG Rule of Fours - aka ECG Interpretation Made Easy...On your arrival in the ER, the emergency intern casually throws you the ECG.
ECG of a 14yr old female who presents following an episode of palpitations and associated dizziness. Interpret her ECG using the Arruda algorithm
Wilhelm His Jr. (1863–1934) was a Swiss cardiologist and anatomist. Bundle of His (1893) - atrioventricular (AV) bundle
A 68 year old male presents 2 weeks post coronary artery bypass grafting. He describes continuing chest wall pain, increasing shortness of breath and poor exercise tolerance. You wonder whether this is a pericardial effusion have a look.
Thomas Cuming (1798 - 1887) was a North Irish physician renowned for works on aortic incompetence, cancum oris and peripneumonia in children.
Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828-1890) was a German ophthalmologist, eponymous with Becker sign, and Becker test for astigmatism.
Corrigan pulse is the excessive visible arterial pulsations in aortic incompetence. Not to be confused with the palpated 'water-hammer pulse'.
Bernard Lown (1921-2021) American cardiologist, activist and inventor. Developed DC cardioversion. Nobel Peace prize winner. Eponym: Lown-Ganong-Levine
A 56 year old woman presents with chest pain and shortness of breath. Her ECG demonstrates widespread precordial ischaemic change.
Sir Leonard Erskine Hill (1866 - 1952) was an English physiologist. Remembered for Hill's sign first described in 1909
Arthur Carlton Ernstene (1901-1971) was an American cardiologist. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)
Herrman Ludwig Blumgart (1895-1977) was an American physician, cardiologist and pioneer of diagnostic nuclear medicine. Blumgart-Ernstene murmur (1933)