About the “ECG of the month”
Every month we’ll post an ECG trace that we invite you to “diagnose”. Click on the ECG trace image and then you submit your explanation by making a comment on the post. Your comment won’t appear until it has been approved so don’t worry if you don’t see it immediately.
Alternatively, you can email your thoughts and analysis to comms@scst.org.uk
Dr Richleys ECG of the Month – May 2024
For this month’s ECG I am indebted to Esta Felix, 1st year STP trainee at Somerset Foundation Trust and MSc cardiac science student at Newcastle University. The question here is: what is the rhythm? The patient is a 75-year-old male with a dilated cardiomyopathy who...
Dr Richleys ECG of the Month – April 2024
Once again, I’d like to thank Arron Pearce for my ECG of the month. This one was recorded from a 74-year-old male who presented with dyspnoea having recently undergone an ablation for atrial fibrillation. What is the rhythm, and why do the QRS complexes occur...
Dr Richleys ECG of the Month – March 2024
I wish to thank Arron Pearce, cardiac nurse and ECG analyst, for this month’s case. It concerns a 30-year-old male who presented with dizziness, chest tightness and palpitations. Figure 1 shows the presenting ECG and figure 2 a follow-up ECG recorded a few weeks...
Dr Richleys ECG of the Month – February 2024
This month’s ECG comes courtesy of Scott Walton, arrhythmia afficionado and regular contributor to our discussions on this page. This is a 32-second extract from a Holter recording from an elderly male who had suffered a stroke and was being screened for paroxysmal...
Dr Richleys ECG of the Month – December 2023
I was recently sent this ECG and asked what I thought the rhythm was. The ECG was recorded from a 55-year-old patient who had recently undergone aortic valve and root replacement following infective endocarditis. I think I’ve worked out what’s going on but what do YOU...
Dr Richleys ECG of the Month – November 2023
I have been trawling my archives and come up with what I think is a challenging case involving three ECGs. Personal and clinical information has been minimised in order to preserve patient confidentiality and anonymity. Figure 1 is the initial ECG of a young boy, and...