Peter Canning
JUNE 8, 2025
Instead of floating a wire into the heart to remove a clock in a blocked coronary artery to restore blood flow, we were floating wires into people’s brains to remove the clot obstructing blood flow –a life-saving procedure. Only after I had read the article the second time did I notice it had been published in 2013.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JANUARY 6, 2016
Dr. Smiths Google Scholar Profile Dr. Smith Articles on PubMed This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 20, 2019
See this case in which the ECG which was recorded after stabilization is diagnostic: ST depression, pulmonary edema, and severe hypertension: is this demand ischemia or acute coronary syndrome? Co-culprit is a 85% bifurcating lesion of the large LADD1 related to above LAD lesion This is an important article by Widimsky et al.
EMDocs
JUNE 25, 2025
His story was concerning for acute coronary syndrome, so he was admitted to the hospital. Of those 10 that were cath’ed, 9 had significant coronary artery disease and all 9 had significant (>90%) stenosis of the LAD. ECG A was obtained upon arrival to the ER from a 45-year-old male with exertional chest pain. Am Heart J.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2022
We proved this in this article. The T wave changes that have occurred are widespread, and not in a typical coronary distribution. Each time the patient underwent cardiac catheterization — and each time, she had patent coronary arteries! Note also the loss of R wave amplitude in ECG #2 compared to ECG #1.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 10, 2025
Coronary angiography before and after intervention is shown below. According to a circulation review article , South Asians are at a higher rate of ASCVD, higher burden with higher. New PMcardio for Individuals App 3.0 now includes the latest Queen of Hearts model and AI explainability (blue heatmaps)! Download now for iOS or Android.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 23, 2015
Without seeing the patient, my interpretation of the first ECG was: likely normal variant ST-elevation (early repolarization), with a small possibility of pericarditis, and almost no possibility of acute coronary occlusion (STEMI). There does not seem to be good evidence to answer this question, unfortunately.
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