ECGs for EMS

EMS responds to the home of a 69 yo male patient. The patient reports retrosternal chest pain x 3 hours. The patient has taken 2 of his own...

After a mind numbing session of protocol review, your partner asks you to review a 12 lead ECG. The ECG tracing was obtained from a patient ...

An elderly male patient is transported to the emergency department following a syncopal episode. The patient reported feeling lightheaded, a...

A cardiologist's office calls 911 for an elderly patient who suffered a syncopal episode. The patient presented to the physician's o...

So.. would you call this one and activate the cath lab from the prehospital ECG? The patient is a 72 year old female with severe uncontrolle...

This particular ECG resulted in a great deal of discussion. Though I don't have the actual details of the patient encounter, its clear t...

Further confounding the already difficult job done by EMTs and paramedics is the idea of falsely positive ST segment elevation. Even whe...