A patient with chest palpitations
Medtest #2 - Hypertensive Emeergency was completed successfully, it's time for another contest.
This patient complaints of chest palpitations. A telemetry strip recorded in the Emergency Department shown here.
Please create a post with answers to the following questions about this patient's Chest palpitations:
- What is the main cardiac rhythm recorded by telemetry?
- What is the likely diagnosis based on the telemetry recording?
- What are possible causes of this condition?
- How would you manage/treat this condition if this was your patient?
You have till next Saturday, Jan 20 . I will review the entries and announce a winner on Sunday Jan 21.
Good luck and have fun!
Contest rules:
- Create a post with your answers to the questions listed here. Copy-paste from medical textbooks is not allowed, it will disqualify your entry. Be as complete as you can, don't worry about English grammar/mistakes, as long as people can understand your post, it's all good.
- Include a reference/link to this post in your post;
- Include a tag #medtest in your tag categories at the bottom of your post, feel free to copy my tags if you wish;
- Make a link to your post in the comments below, to help me find your post;
How to create a link on SteemIt
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- put a name of your post in square brackets like so [name of your post]
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The winners gets a prize of 0.5 steem.
Future steem income generated from the contest will be used to fund more contests and bigger prizes.
If no winning entries received for this challenge the prize will be moved to the next medical contest.
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