CT Case 005
A 75 yo female is found on the floor at home with reduced level of consciousness. She was last seen well over 12 hours prior.
A 75 yo female is found on the floor at home with reduced level of consciousness. She was last seen well over 12 hours prior.
A 70-year-old female presents with 12 hours duration of headache and progressive drowsiness. A CT brain is performed
A 35yo male background of liver cirrhosis secondary to alcohol excess is transferred from a peripheral hospital with suspected GI bleed.
A 2yo presents following fall from a chair. She has a GCS of 5 on arrival to ED. This child was intubated and taken for urgent CT brain.
A 55 year old male presents to ED with several hours of confusion. En route to hospital he has a self-terminating tonic-clonic seizure.
The monitor alarms "extreme ventricular tachycardia". There are three features on this rhythm strip that suggest artefact -- can you spot them?
A woman in her 60s with a broad complex tachycardia. There are two ECG features that suggest an accessory pathway, can you spot them?
A single agent overdose causing AV blockade, QRS widening, and QT prolongation.... but reports of death only if QRS > 200ms. Which medication is this?
Crushing chest pain and diaphoresis. New inferior Q waves and T-wave inversion, yet this is a normal ECG. Can you explain why?
Chest pain, shock and ST elevation in aVR. The LAST place this patient needs to be is in the cath lab
A negative troponin, resolved chest pain, and a "normal" ECG does not exclude ACS requiring emergent intervention
An 88-year-old man with palpitations and a HR fixed at 150. This is not flutter or AVNRT -- can you explain why?