CARDIOLOGY DR. JESSE MCLAREN ECG CASES ECG INTERPRETATION EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY PACEMAKER PACER MNEMONIC
ECG Cases 36 – PACER Mnemonic for Approach to Pacemaker Patients

In this month's ECG Cases blog Dr. McLaren explains the PACER mnemonic approach to patients with pacemakers: Pacemaker spike: is it appropriately presence/absent, is there pacemaker-mediated tachycardia (apply magnet) or is there failure to pace (apply magnet to stop sensin...

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CARDIOLOGY DR. JESSE MCLAREN ECG CASES ECG INTERPRETATION EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY PACEMAKER PACER MNEMONIC
ECG Cases 36 – PACER Mnemonic for Approach to Pacemaker Patients

In this month's ECG Cases blog Dr. McLaren explains the PACER mnemonic approach to patients with pacemakers: Pacemaker spike: is it appropriately presence/absent, is there pacemaker-mediated tachycardia (apply magnet) or is there failure to pace (apply magnet to stop sensin...

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CARDIOLOGY DR. JESSE MCLAREN ECG CASES ECG INTERPRETATION EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY STEMI
ECG Cases 25: ‘Late STEMI’ – How acute is the coronary occlusion?

In this ECG Cases blog we look at 10 patients with potentially ischemic symptoms. Which had a coronary occlusion, and how acute were they? Jesse McLaren explains 'Late STEMI' and how reperfusion strategies should not be based on time of symptom onset... The post Read more

CARDIOLOGY DR. JESSE MCLAREN ECG CASES ECG INTERPRETATION EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY STEMI
ECG Cases 25: ‘Late STEMI’ – How acute is the coronary occlusion?

In this ECG Cases blog we look at 10 patients with potentially ischemic symptoms. Which had a coronary occlusion, and how acute were they? Jesse McLaren explains 'Late STEMI' and how reperfusion strategies should not be based on time of symptom onset... The post Read more

CARDIOLOGY DEWINTER T WAVES DR. JESSE MCLAREN ECG CASES ECG INTERPRETATION EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE HYPERACUTE T WAVE ISCHEMIA MEDICAL SPECIALTY STEMI
ECG Cases 1: Missed Ischemia – Never Trust the ECG Computer Interpretation

In EM Cases' first ECG Cases blog we review 7 examples of ECGs of patients presenting to the ED with chest pain, who's ECG were read as normal by the computer. And guess what...they all show acute ischemia! The post Read more

CARDIOLOGY DEWINTER T WAVES DR. JESSE MCLAREN ECG CASES ECG INTERPRETATION EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE HYPERACUTE T WAVE ISCHEMIA MEDICAL SPECIALTY STEMI
ECG Cases 1: Missed Ischemia – Never Trust the ECG Computer Interpretation

In EM Cases' first ECG Cases blog we review 7 examples of ECGs of patients presenting to the ED with chest pain, who's ECG were read as normal by the computer. And guess what...they all show acute ischemia! The post Read more

DR. JESSE MCLAREN DR. LUCAS CHARTIER EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE HEART SCORE LAMA LWBS MEDICAL SPECIALTY MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION QI QUALITY IMPROVEMENT TROPONIN WAITING TO BE SEEN
WTBS 16 Listening for the QI Signal in the Noise of ED Return Visits: Focus on Missed MI

Jesse McLaren outlines 10 Quality Improvement (QI) opportunities for reducing missed AMIs and the lessons learned from Ontario’s Emergency Department Return Visit Quality Program in this Waiting to Be Seen blog... The post Read more

DR. JESSE MCLAREN DR. LUCAS CHARTIER EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE HEART SCORE LAMA LWBS MEDICAL SPECIALTY MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION QI QUALITY IMPROVEMENT TROPONIN WAITING TO BE SEEN
WTBS 16 Listening for the QI Signal in the Noise of ED Return Visits: Focus on Missed MI

Jesse McLaren outlines 10 Quality Improvement (QI) opportunities for reducing missed AMIs and the lessons learned from Ontario’s Emergency Department Return Visit Quality Program in this Waiting to Be Seen blog... The post Read more