Key result
ECG evaluation assesses acute dyspnea and hypotension in an elderly woman following severe chest pain.
Population
79-year-old woman presenting with shortness of breath and prior chest pain
Case illustrates ECG role in post-chest pain dyspnea with hypotension; leaves open validation in larger cohorts before practice change.
This is the ECG of a 79-year old woman with no past medical history who presents with shortness of breath at rest for 1 day. She admits to an episode of severe chest pain lasting a couple of hours the previous day. On examination she is mildly distressed, not in pain, with a BP of 90/60 and crackles in lung lower zones.
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Andrzej M. Okreglicki (2017) studied this question. An electrocardiogram was evaluated for a 79-year-old woman presenting with shortness of breath, hypotension, and pulmonary crackles one day after an episode of severe chest pain.
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