This weeks ECG is from a 50yr old patient who has taken a large polypharmacy OD. Your team is working on gaining collateral to establish what has been taken. In the meantime the patient is agitated, but your excellent resus nurse manages to obtain this ECG:
What are your immediate management priorities?
A 40yr male patient presents with OOHCA. During arrest he received thrombolysis for potential STEMI and 10mmol KCL to treat an initial VBG K 2.5
The team then achieved ROSC and the following ABG was obtained immediately after placement of arterial line.
Please outline you management?
This week’s ECG is from a 61yr male presents 3/7 post TKR with sudden onset SOB:
Please state your diagnosis and management of this patient
The following ECG is from a 40yr old male patient:
What is your diagnosis and management of this patient?
An 86yr male presents with syncope and melena. Hb 76. His ECG is below:
What is the Rythm? What is you management plan for this patient?
The following ECG is from a young male who has presented with intermittent palpitations. He has no significant medical history.
What further history would you elicit from this patient?
Interpret his ECG and outline your management.
The following ECG is from a 60-year-old male who has presented with 5 days of central chest pain and epigastric pain which radiates between his shoulder blades.
His observations demonstrate a mild tachypnoea and 2L nasal prong oxygen requirement.
Describe and interpret his ECG. Outline your management of this patient.
80 year old man presented with shortness of breath. This patient had history of CHF and COPD. His venous blood gases showed the following
PH = 7.39, that is within the normal range.
pCO2 = 30 mmHg, that is slightly low. This patient might have respiratory alkalosis.
Next, we should look at the compensation for respiratory acidosis. (This patient is 2 years old. The condition will be acute).
The following knee x-rays are from an adult who has knee pain & swelling after a twisting injury to the knee. What can be seen? Continue reading