Activate or Wait – 007
84 year-old woman from home with central chest pain following a fall. Background of hypertension and dyslipidaemia. ETA 20 minutes to your tertiary centre.
Tag EKG
Activate or Wait – 006
62 year-old woman with two hours of central crushing chest pain. Smoker, hypertension. ETA 30 minutes.
Activate or Wait – 005
45 year-old man with two hours of central chest pain. Smoker, significant family history of IHD. ETA 20 minutes.
Activate or Wait – 004
86 year-old woman with two hours of dull chest pain and dizziness. Ex-smoker with hypertension and dyslipidaemia. ETA 20 minutes.
Activate or Wait – 003
58 year-old man with one week of pleuritic chest pain and SOB. Background of previous pericarditis. ETA 30 minutes.
Activate or Wait – 009
81-year-old female with three hours of central, crushing chest pain. Background of hypertension, heavy smoker.
Activate or Wait – 001
46-year-old male with one hour of central crushing chest pain. Background of hypertension, morbidly obese and a heavy smoker.
Henry Bazett
Henry Cuthbert Bazett (1885 – 1950) was an English physiologist. Eponym: Bazett's formula to calculate QTc interval for varying heart rates
Fridericia Formula
Fridericia Formula for calculating the QT interval on an (ECG) according to heart rate, described in 1920. Louis Sigurd Fridericia (1881-1947)
ECG Case 137
The monitor alarms "extreme ventricular tachycardia". There are three features on this rhythm strip that suggest artefact -- can you spot them?
ECG Case 136
A woman in her 60s with a broad complex tachycardia. There are two ECG features that suggest an accessory pathway, can you spot them?
ECG Case 135
A single agent overdose causing AV blockade, QRS widening, and QT prolongation.... but reports of death only if QRS > 200ms. Which medication is this?