The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is tailored to the staff of the Mount Washington Valley EMS Program and the Memorial Hospital, but is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 18 - All Things LVH
If you have taken any type of 12-Lead ECG training, you have probably heard of a condition known as LVH, or left ventricular hypertrophy. It is possible that you also heard there is no way to diagnose an Occlusion Myocardial Infarction (OMI/STEMI) if LVH is present. What is LVH exactly, how does it affect our patients, and what tools can we use to evaluate if LVH is hiding an MI?
