No textbook.
No carefully manufactured exam question.
A sad looking middle aged person presented for medical assessment, and this ECG was recorded.
Chest pain for a while now, they said.
Someone passes you the strip to sign and says “this looks odd, innit?”
The patient is awake.
Talking.
What do you see?
1. What is the diagnosis?
2. Which leads give it away?
3. Where is the culprit likely to be?
4. What are you doing next? And when?
Because the ECGs we learn for exams eventually stop being exam questions.
One day, there’s a real person sitting in front of you.
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