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A woman in her 30s with sudden chest pain, nausea, and diaphoresis. Was her cardiology management appropriate?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Currently, SCAD is a diagnosis that can only be established emergently in the cath lab with angiography. Type 1 ACS OMI should be ruled out as it is the most common and most treatable cause, and only with angiography will type 1 ACS be ruled out and SCAD be diagnosed instead. And is there new left bundle branch block (LBBB)?