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ECG Challenge From Dr. Ahmed - Patient With Hyperkalemia
This ECG was kindly donated to the ECG Guru website by Dr. Ahmed for open discussion among our members. The patient was a 70+ year-old man who presented with a complaint of dizziness. His serum...
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Hyperkalemia in a DKA Patient
For your collection, we present another interesting set of ECGs from Paramedic Erik Testerman. They are from a 48 year old man who presented responsive only to painful stimuli, with deep, rapid...
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Hyperkalemia
This ECG was obtained from a patient who was suffering from renal failure and had a serum potassium level of 6.8 mEq/L. It shows some of the earliest ECG signs of hyperkalemia. There are tall,...
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Hyperkalemia
This ECG was obtained from a patient who had a serum potassium level of 7.4 mEq/L. It shows some of the earliest ECG signs of hyperkalemia. There are tall, sharply-peaked T waves in many leads. The...
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ECG Basics: Sinus Tachycardia, Peaked T Waves, and Baseline Artifact
This strip offers several good teaching opportunities. If it were a 12-lead ECG, no doubt it would be a bonanza! First, there is sinus tachycardia at a rate of about 138 per minute. The P waves are...
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Extreme Hyperkalemia
This ECG was taken from an elderly man who was in acute renal failure, and had presented to the Emergency Department via EMS. He was weak and hypotensive. We have no other medical history or clinical...
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Electrolyte Effects
This ECG is from a 46-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus. She presented to the Emergency Dept. with a complaint of weakness. Her BP was elevated at 186/102. Her blood glucose was 936 mg/dL...
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Hyperkalemia
This ECG is from a 57-year-old woman with extreme weakness. We do not know her medical history or complete lab results, except that her serum potassium level was 8.8 mEq/liter at the time of this ECG....
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Early Hyperkalemia
This ECG was obtained from an elderly man with Type II diabetes and early chronic renal failure. His serum potassium level was 6.3 mmol/L, and his BUN was 52 mg/dL. We don’t know his creatinine...
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Instructors' Collection ECG: Tachycardia In An Unresponsive Patient
The Patient This ECG was obtained from a 28-year-old woman who was found in her home, unresponsive. She was hypotensive at 99/35. No one was available to provide information about past medical...
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