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Cardiologist declines taking patient to the cath lab. Patient dies.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The provider contacted cardiology to discuss the case, but cardiology "didn't think it was a STEMI, didn't think he needed emergent cath." JAMA 2000) showed that 1/3 of patients with STEMI, and 1/3 of patients with NSTEMI, present without chest pain. The whole paradigm is literally called "STEMI" vs. "NSTEMI." Canto et al.