Presenting Complaint - Chest Pain
History of Present Complaint - 58 year old female, nil cardiac history, mild smoker, social drinker and overweight.
Complaining of acute central chest pain @ rest. Awoken by pain.
On Arrival - Sat upright on settee (Editor's note: One of you Brits will have to interpret that for me!)
On examination:
Alert, orientated and communicable (GCS 15)
Pale, cool dry skin.
Nil SOB, clear bi-lateral air entry - nil adventitious breath sounds
R/R 19, SpO2 99%
H/R 68 and irregular, BP 125/74
Temp 36.8
B.M 7.2 (Editor's note: B.M. is BGL measured in millimoles. 1 mmol/L of glucose is equivalent to 18 mg/dL. Hence, this patient's sugar is about 130).
C/O chest pain.
O - Acute. Awoken from sleep.
P - Nothing makes pain better. Not affected by breathing
Q - Non specific compressing type pain
R - Central chest pain radiating left arm
S - Pain score 6/10
T - 30 mins
I - No pain intervention sought.
Slight nausea, nil vomit
The cardiac monitor is attached.
A 12-lead ECG is captured.
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This ECG meets all 3 of a certain criteria.
What criteria are we talking about and how would you treat this patient?
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Tom,
ReplyDeleteVery nice case. I will let others take a chance at this before providing my interpretation. It is cases like this that make me want to push this criteria into prehospital education. Too many paramedics would take a look at this 12-lead and say "can't interpret".
ps. Who is Kelly Arashin?
Kelly Arashin is a Clinical Nurse Specialist residing on Hilton Head Island and a finalist in the Chronicles of EMS "Change the Name" competition.
ReplyDeleteShe is also my significant other! :)
Tom
Ahh, now I can put it all together. I saw her name in the finalist email. Well I guess I will have to wish you luck then. Hope you get the trip.
ReplyDelete12 lead shows to be an inferiolateral acute infarct. You have elevation ii iii avf v5--v6. You also show depression in rec. Leads. She is presenting with classic signs for the male patient ie nocturnal dyspna chest pain with radiation down lefrt arm. With this she is showing involvment of both the rca and lad.
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