I was checking out the old LIFENET Receiving Station and this case caught my eye. What do you think? See also: Found on the LIFENET – October 2008 Found on the LIFENET – September 2009 Found on the LIFENET – November 2009

Here’s a really interesting case submission from David Baumrind. EMS is called out in a rain storm to evaluate a 60 year old male with a chief complaint of shortness of breath.

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Those of you who predicted that the white and red electrodes were switched were exactly right.

You are suturing a large laceration in a patient’s leg when a nurse walks in, holds up an ECG and says, “We have a walk-in chest pain patient in bed 4.”

Not so fast…Patient follow-up.

If only all of our patients were this educated about their health care.

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Some of you expressed concerns about the possibility of the ECG abnormality we sometimes refer to as left ventricular aneurysm (persistent ST-elevation after previous MI).

What do you think of this patient’s 12-lead ECG?