ECG of the week
A tracing and a short vignette. The answer to each one appears with the next post, alongside a new tracing. Difficulty runs from findings a foundation doctor should name to tracings carrying several pathologies at once.
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Presyncope, and a pulse of about thirty
A 78-year-old woman is brought in after two episodes of feeling about to faint, both while standing at the kitchen sink. She did not lose consciousness and did not fall. She takes…
Every tracing here was generated, not recorded. Each one opens in the Squiggler studio with every dial live — change the rate, widen the QRS, move the ST and watch what it does to the reading.