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Texted from a former EM resident: 70 yo with syncope and hypotension, but no chest pain. Make their eyes roll!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015; 33(6):786-790. Former resident: "Just saw cath report, LAD stent was 100% acutely occluded." They of course opened and stented it. Electrocardiographic Criteria to Differentiate Acute Anterior ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction from Left Ventricular Aneurysm. You taught us well!"

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Inferior ST elevation with reciprocal change: which of these 4 patients has Occlusion MI?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Patient 2 : 55 year old with 5 hours of chest pain radiating to the shoulder, with nausea and shortness of breath ECG: sinus bradycardia, normal conduction, normal axis, normal R wave progression, no hypertrophy. Smith : The fact that the ECG did not evolve is further proof that this was the baseline ECG. nearly identical to the first case).