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1/ Happy #12LeadThursday!
Practice your skills and take a swing at our latest EKG. What’s the diagnosis?
Use your system:
🔘Rhythm
🔘Rate
🔘Axis
🔘Intervals
🔘Morphology
#FOAMEd #cardiotwitter #medtwitter
Practice your skills and take a swing at our latest EKG. What’s the diagnosis?
Use your system:
🔘Rhythm
🔘Rate
🔘Axis
🔘Intervals
🔘Morphology
#FOAMEd #cardiotwitter #medtwitter
2/ We’re mixing it up today: we’ve got one finding that’s a throwback to a previous #12LeadThursday, combined with a new finding that’s a little more specific.
Low voltage + electrical alternans = ?
Low voltage + electrical alternans = ?
3/ Remember, specificity = true negatives / (true negatives + false positives). Highly specific findings rarely produce false positives, so you can be pretty sure this 🚴🏽♀️ has developed tamponade physiology.
What do you do next?
What do you do next?
4/ Slap a probe on his chest!
This patient’s new best friend is you, plus whoever is about to perform his pericardiocentesis. Better call your colleagues in cardiac EP!
Good work today, folks. Hope you enjoyed. We’ll see you on the next round of #12LeadThursday.
This patient’s new best friend is you, plus whoever is about to perform his pericardiocentesis. Better call your colleagues in cardiac EP!
Good work today, folks. Hope you enjoyed. We’ll see you on the next round of #12LeadThursday.
