A young woman with palpitations. Fast, irregular rhythm. Normal axis. Short PR, slurred QRS upstroke—the delta wave of Wolf-Parkinson-White. The shamrock caught it before she arrested.
But Dr. Seamus Brennan’s luck lived on. Shamrock Ecg Book
On the inside back cover of the book, beneath his name, he had written one final note: A young woman with palpitations
Dr. Brennan had done it again. Next to a rhythm strip showing a wide-complex tachycardia, he’d drawn another shamrock, this one split into four uneven leaves, each labeled: V rate? , Regularity? , Width? , History? Underneath: “Four questions. Four leaves. One answer.” A young woman with palpitations. Fast