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Tag Archives: EKGs
What do you think of this 12-lead? ***UPDATED
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ...Without any details to accompany this tracing, what do you think? (Hint: You probably won’t see too many similar strips at Prehospital 12-Lead ECG Blog or Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog, the two blogs on this subject that I visit the … Continue reading
Call review #2
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Code 3 for chest pain. This is not really a call review, since this is not what I do here, but I think it’s an interesting call in some ways. A polite but anxious 53-year-old woman tells me she “bent … Continue reading
A happy medic, but not who you think
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Code 3 for shortness of breath. At 0530 hours. At some crazy house. We’ve only had 1 hour of sleep, if you can call it sleep. Ugh. A man in no apparent distress is sitting in a chair in the … Continue reading
EMS cliche #1
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I recently came across a thread discussing whether a strip was VT or SVT with aberrancy. Never mind that a wide-complex tachycardia is VT unless you can prove otherwise. Just about everyone in that thread was all too happy to … Continue reading
Call review #1 ***UPDATED
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Code 3 for hypertension. This is a 76-year-old female whose daughter called for a relatively sudden onset of weakness over the past hour. She speaks no English, and her daughter tells us that she’s been generally “fine” except that over … Continue reading
