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Cardiac arrest, defibrillated, diffuse ST depression and ST Elevation in aVR. Why?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Again, it is common to have an ECG that shows apparent subendocardial ischemia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest, after defibrillation, and after cardioversion. The estimated left ventricular ejection fraction is 58 % Aortic stenosis, mild, 9.0 Academic Emergency Medicine 17(s1):S194; May 2010 Does this patient have ACS?

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Guidelines would (erroneously) say that this patient who was defibrillated and resuscitated does not need emergent angiography

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A patient had a cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation and was successfully defibrillated. IF the initial ECG following successful defibrillation shows evidence of acute OMI — such patients have much to gain from immediate cath with PCI. The proof of this is that only 5% of patients enrolled had acute coronary occlusion.