You may have noticed that I am an ECG geek – I love their simplicity and their complexity. I certainly don’t claim guru status, as I don’t possess expertise in the same way that Amal Mattu or Steve Smith do, but I do love ECGs. I regularly arrive on the ED floor at morning handover, [...]
This is the first of a (probably ongoing) series of posts in which I will discuss ECGs where subtle findings resulted in disagreement in diagnosis, and some differences in how best to manage the patient. By way of a shoutout and a thank you, I’d just like to preface this by saying that there is no [...]
I had intended to follow up my recent series of posts on STEMI vs pericarditis, a pet topic of mine (1. case / 2. ECG interpretation / 3. follow up), with a piece on differentiating these two entities. However, my posts were spotted by the incomparable ECG expert Amal Mattu, and he has based this week’s UMEM “EKG of the [...]
