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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

About 45 minutes after the second EKG, the patient was found in cardiac arrest. Later the next day, she went into cardiac arrest again. By the time I saw the repeat EKG, the patient was already in cardiac arrest. Hyperacute T Wave in the Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction.

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Middle Aged Woman with Asystolic Cardiac Arrest, Resuscitated: Cath Lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

What is the utility of a head CT in cardiac arrest? We found intracranial hemorrhage in 2% of non-traumatic cardiac arrest patients, and in 4 others the presence of cerebral edema changed management. in Vienna found that 27 of 765 (4%) of out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) were due to SAH.