The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast

The Synapse Season 3 Episode 27 - Early Repolarization...Good Or Bad? How About Both?

Season 3 Episode 27

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For as long as I can remember, I have been taught that Early Repolarization was, well, Benign...a good thing, a no-nothing finding that is very common in young males and athletes. However, back in 2008, that changed. Subsets of ER were found to be very much linked to episodes of spontaneous ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death syndrome. How do we know when Early Repolarization on ECG is a mundane finding vs when it is pathologic? Tune in to find out!