Dana Johnson
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Dana Johnson
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Assistant Professor of Medicine Cardiac Electrophysiology. EP lab Director University of Illinois Chicago, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. All posts are my own.
Do you really need that IV?
May 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
That’s a good one. I mean my gut was initially SVT given the similar axis and morphology but the onset I don’t see any p wave unless it’s like a double fire. I’d say put some catheters in. I suck at EKGs
March 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Great question. I left it out, but history of radiation therapy to throat. Pretty astounding!
March 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Next step is definitely pace ablate, he already has a CRT. Came in in sinus 🤯
March 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So we paced at 20 all over. No capture anywhere. That scale is 0.05mV to 1.5 btw. He had an atypical flutter in the RA that we terminated and initially had some conduction over the CTI, so we blocked that. Wouldn’t recommend other targeted ablation in the future!
March 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Those were my words exactly
March 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Nice suturing!
March 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Yeah. I always tell patients sometime it’s a chicken and egg/ myopathy/pvc question. Hard to know which came first
February 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’ll check too, see if anyone will spill the beans early.
February 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yeah I don’t know if I’ve seen a parahis that I thought caused a myopathy. Have had several where the patient was very symptomatic and had to go after them 😬
February 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yeah I can’t go back so you hook it up ha ha
February 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There are some studies suggesting the burden itself didn’t necessarily predict decline, I think morphology tended to contribute. Some data that in large numbers of patients, spontaneous regression occurs too. Just hard to know who will need ablation for high burden asymptomatic pvcs with normal EF.
February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM