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How terrible can it be to fail to recognize OMI? To whom is OMI Obvious or Not Obvious?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Click here to sign up for Queen of Hearts Access Here is the cardiologist's formal interpretation : "sinus rhythm with marked sinus arrhythmia, left ventricular hypertrophy with repolarization abnormality, and anteroseptal infarct, age undetermined." About 45 minutes after the second EKG, the patient was found in cardiac arrest.

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Magnetocardiography at rest predicts cardiac death in patients with acute chest pain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction Sudden cardiac arrest is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and remains a major public health problem for which better non-invasive prediction tools are needed. The individual relationship between fatal arrhythmias and cardiac function abnormalities in predicting cardiac death risk has rarely been explored.