A 56-year-old man is admitted to the hospital with chest discomfort. He is placed on telemetry and treated with intravenous nitroglycerin and heparin. Two hours after admission, he is noted to have a rapid, wide complex tachycardia and no blood pressure is obtained...
A 58-year-old man with severe emphysema/COPD is admitted with progressively worsening dypnea. On presentation, it is felt that he has a COPD exacerbation...
A 64-year-old woman with diabetes and a long smoking history presents with left-sided chest discomfort that awakened her from her sleep. The discomfort was unrelenting, and she sought immediate medical attention.
A 31-year-old man with known congenital heart disease, for which he underwent surgery as a child, presents to the emergency department with palpitations that developed while he was jogging.
A 44-year-old diabetic man is brought via EMS to his local hospital, having been found unconscious at home...
A 54-year-old man develops epigastric discomfort and nausea while driving home from his job as a night watchman...
A 16-year-old healthy female with a strong family history of sudden cardiac death undergoes a s creening ECG.
A 48-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosis is admitted with pleuritic chest pain and lightheadedness...
A 72-year-old woman presents for her first clinic visit with a new primary care provider. She has a history of hypertension and diabetes and suffered a myocardial infarction 18 months earlier.
A 24-year-old man presents to his primary physician with complaints of intermittent palpitations. He has noted these symptoms on and off for a year.