Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS): Bradycardia
1. Initial evaluation is as follows: [1, 2, 3, 4] Assess appropriateness for clinical condition (pulse present and unstable). Heart rate...
Carbon Monoxide Toxicity Updated: Dec 26, 2017
Background Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas produced by incomplete combustion of carbonaceous material. Clinical...
Intoxicación por nitratos y nitritos
CASO CLINICO Paciente de 15 años, con antecedentes de alergias ambientales a ácaros y a epitelio de perros, y antecedentes personales de...
Supraventricular Tachycardia in Pediatric Patient With Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
This ECG was obtained from a 13-year-old boy who had previously been in NSR. At that time, he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White...
ECG Basics: Third-degree AV Block, Complete Heart Block
This rhythm strip shows third-degree AV block, also called complete heart block or complete AV block. The P waves are from the sinus...
Atrial Fib To Cardiac Arrest
A paramedic crew responded to the office of a local physician. A 61-year-old male presented with a one-week history of chest pain and...
Deep, Symmetrical T Wave Inversions
This ECG is from a 50-year-old man with chest pain. Unfortunately, we don’t have any other clinical information. This tracing is a...
Left Main Coronary Artery Obstruction
Today’s ECG of the WEEK comes from Sebastian Garay, Paramedic. He presented it on his excellent website CardioCareConcepts.com, and was...
Sodium Nitrate toxicity
CLINICAL CASE A phone call is recieved from a high school in the ambulance coordination center, the caller tels the coordinator that one...
Acute Anterior-lateral M.I. With Right Bundle Branch Block and Left Posterior Fascicular Block
This ECG was obtained from a patient who suffered an occlusion of the left main coronary artery. ST elevation is seen in Leads V1...
