25 year old male with SOBOE

25 year old male smoker of Pacific Island decent presents for a checkup with increasing shortness of breath on exertion. Pt has no relevant medical history but thinks his grandfather and cousin died in their late 20s suddenly and unexpectedly.
What do you see?
What are your differential diagnoses?

 Answer to come...

49 year old wakes with palpitations

49 year old male with history of intermittent palpitations interpreted by GP as atrial fibrillation/flutter, severe sleep apnoea (refuses to use continuous positive airway pressure machine) and dilated cardiomyopathy (of possible alcohol or tachyarrhythmia origin) with a recent ejection fraction of around 40-45% calls the ambulance after waking with severe palpitations and shortness of breath. He explains he has had the same palpitations wake him once or twice a week for the last month but they only ever last a few minutes. After his Temazepam ran out the night before the man had trouble getting to sleep that night and when his sleep was disturbed by the intense palpitations it took an hour of symptoms before his wife found him and called an ambulance.
State ambulance service arrives to see the man pacing the room attempting to breath deeply while his wife encourages him to relax.
This ECG is recorded:

The man is in mild distress, has a strong palpable pulse, tachypnoeic at 38 breaths a minute and his manual blood pressure initially reads 215/119 mmHg.

Analise this ECG: Rate, rhythm, P waves, QRS, ischaemia...etc
What are the differential diagnoses?
What is the most likely scenario based diagnosis? and how about the electrocardiographical signs?

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62 year old male for DCCV

61 year old male arrives to your unit for an elective cardioversion (DCCV). His chart has not arrived yet but he tells you he has had palpitations on and off for years that have ended him up in the ED numerous times and he has had a device (pacemaker and/or defibrillator) inserted (his X-ray shows a single ventricular lead).
You take this ECG knowing that if he isn't in a cardiovertable rhythm, you need to discharge him.

Analyse this ECG.

What is the rhythm?

From his ECG findings, can you make an educated guess as to what device he has insitu and whether or not it is active on this ECG?

Can you guess what drug he may well be on for his atrial fibrillation to put him into this rhythm?

Are you going to discharge this man?

Answer to come!

42 year old with stabbing chest pain

A 42 year old man presents to the emergency department around midnight after playing soccer with some friends. Through mime and smartphone he is able to complain of intermittent stabbing chest pain around the position of ECG lead V4. The patient is new to the country and doesn't speak English very well but does have a medic-alert bracelet that is translated: "Allergy to shellfish. Stents in heart."
This ECG is performed and  placed in front of you, what is going on here?

Answer to come!

52 year old male with Chest pain

52 year old male arrives at emergency department after 1 hour of intense chest pain, diaphoresis and nausea, followed by vomiting. ED nurses take ECG as above and provide GTN, morphine and anti-emetic with no effect. What is happening?

Answer to come...

40 year old male with Syncope

40 year old male has noticed a slowly increasing dyspnoea on exertion and more recently, syncopal episodes. The only cardiac relevant history is dislipidaemia. He does report however that his father started to get tired and short of breath in his forties and died suddenly in his fifties.

Exam shows no JVP distention, clear lungs bilaterally and dual heart sounds with a loud systolic murmur.
Systematically, what does this ECG show? What is this patient at high risk of? what are the differentials and most likely diagnosis?