ECG enthusiast and ECG interpreter at Broomwell Healthwatch - Managing Broomwell's social media - Nurse by trade - Millennial (Background ECG is pre-excited AF)
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For any visual learners - this artefact originates from the right arm. The artefact's largest amplitude is seen in I, II and aVR. Half the amplitude in aVL and aVF. 0 in III. And a third in the chest leads.
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I have a very intriguing rhythm that was sent by a colleague.
I see a long RP tachycardia with a trigeminal pattern. I have never seen a long RP behave in this way.
I think this is re-entrant. Could the cyclical nature be due to alternating retrograde pathways?
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RBBB does not always have a primary R wave in V1 - here are two cases that have qR complexes due to previous transmural infarction.
You will not always see an rsR' in the anterior leads.
RBBB:
- QRS duration ≥120ms
- Late, broad R in V1
- Broad S in V6
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An uncommon finding of inverted U waves
Patient in their 30s with palpitations and chest pain (currently asymptomatic)
History of Anomalous Coronary Artery, Congenital Heart Disease and PE
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Male in his 40s with intermittent chest pain for 4 days - referred to cardiology
Any comments about the T waves?
I have a follow-up ECG for this patient
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A scary ECG to the untrained eye 👀
18 year old with dizziness and syncope
This is non-simultaneously recorded (the first 2.5 seconds are seen in all 12 leads)
Nice example of Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) ECG features that disappear after closure.
RBBB and Crochetage sign (R wave notching inferiorly) disappear after closure but atrial flutter appears.
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Can you tell what the rhythm is?
Answer was confirmed with an easy, none invasive approach
I will post the follow up ECG shortly
80s 🚺left sided chest pain on inspiration, tachcyardic at ~120 bpm
History of Afib, valvular heart disease/aortic stenosis, HTN, T2DM
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Most interesting ECG of the day was this AVNRT with subtle alternans.
Looking forward to the weekend after analysing and reporting 320 ECGs in 4 days 😴
What two things have changed between these two ECGs?
They were recorded just minutes apart.
Patient in their 20s complaining of chest pain but is currently asymptomatic.
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A patient with COPD and it looks like an old anterior infarct.
COPD features seen here:
- Low voltage lead I (Schamroth sign)
- Right atrial enlargement/abnormality
- Extreme axis devation in the frontal plane
- a degree a clockwise rotation in the horizontal
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ECG due to Quetiapine monitoring/QTc check
However patient has Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and a LBBB.
Patient is asymptomatic but note the deep and broad T wave inversions laterally/high laterally.
Does anyone have a preferred method for QTc calculation in patients with a BBB?
What do you see 🧐
Two ECGs from the same patient, recorded on different days. I think they were routine asymtpomatic ECGs, what cardiac history do you think the patient has?
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See how artefact originating from one of the limb leads behaves. Its behaviour is completely predictable.
Here artefact from the left leg will cause a large spike in II,III and aVF (red).
Half the artefact is seen in aVR and aVL (blue).
A third will be seen in the chest (green).
For all the Acute MI aficionados - An OMI/NOMI case
Male in his 60s with intermittent chest pain for 5 days - impression? Culpit(s)?
I do have some follow-up for this patient
Do we have some kind of N wave laterally? 🤔
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Thoughts on V2 (there is a notched J point on the rhythm strips in V2)
Elderly lady who had a fall (unsure of cardiac history)
Old ECGs below
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Interesting rhythm case which I think is an atrial flutter with multilevel wenckebach block. I've never seen a baseline in lead II like it. I think it looks strange because of the way that the flutter waves are merging with the T waves
Thoughts?
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For those of you that love ACS ECGs...
Male in his late 50s with palpitations (no chest pain reported)
History of MI (>15 years ago) and stents (specifics unknown)
Old ECG in the second tweet.
Looks Aslanger-esque (but does V2 "disqualify"?)
Interesting alternating RBBB aberration - thoughts on mechanism/how would you describe this conduction pattern?
Male in his 70s complaining of chest pain
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Late 20s male with intermittent chest pain for a month, unsure whether symptomatic during the ECG and unfortunately this is the only ECG so we cannot see the narrow complex beats in all leads.
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A case of intermittent LBBB within the same traces.
In the first ECG the abberation begins when the heart rate increases subtly to 90 bpm.
In the second ECG the heart rate slows slightly and the QRS becomes narrow again.
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Our eye is naturally drawn to the 1st beat however its easier to understand this rhythm if you ignore the 1st beat and start at the 2nd: There is a P wave that conducts, followed by a short sinus pause. This is then terminated by a junctional escape...
A nice pictorial representation of most arrhythmias that I've just seen on Facebook
Reported to be from:
Arrhythmias: tachyarrhythmias
Critical Care Medicine at a Glance, 3rd Ed. R. Leach
ECG of a teenage male which I believe shows Benign T Wave Inversions (BTWI)
Side note - "large" (by adult standards) QRS voltages in young slim patients is a very common finding