It
is late and your pager goes off. It is your next admission. Your
colleague tells you "this is an easy one, come down".
You come down and the patient is being admitted for a rule out MI
admission. You speak to her and she tells you that she came in because
of a chest pain she woke up with this morning. She says it is across
her entire chest, and is in both arms. It gets worst when she gets
up to do anything, and if she sits still she feels fine. She says
for the past 2 months after every large meal she gets a similar
type of pain which she takes tums for which help. She says since
than she eats smaller meals which has made a little difference.
She also tells you for the first time she ate a large burrito last
night from one of the corner shops and the cereal she ate this morning
also made the pain worst. She also tells you that she lives in georgia
and is here visiting, and her and her husband have covered an entire
city on foot with no problems, and that she is an avid hiker. She
denies any SOB, Dizziness, Palpitations, Diaphoresis. She denies
any change in exercise tolerance. Her only past medical history
is High Cholesterol for which she takes Lipitor. She does not smoke,
does not drink, and has no contributory family history. Her Chest
xray is clear, and her labs are pending. She is asking you if she
can leave? Her EKG is below, what do you do?
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