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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
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- Down sloping -concave- ST segment; Find a Lead w/ no S wave to identify the pattern; Digitalis Toxicity: --r/o Hypokalemia; - Arrhythmia: - PVC, Bigeminy, Trigeminy, - Ventricular Tach w/ AV dissociation - Ventricular Fibrillation - Atrial Fibrillation, - PAT w/block - Nodal Rhytms - Sinus Bradycardia - Conduction abnormalities: - SA block, 1^, 2^, 3^ AV heart block - quinidine - Procainamide: - Prolonged QT ?, flattened T waves, and QRS widening;



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.