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Do you need to be a trained health care professional to diagnose subtle OMI on the ECG?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The provider had sent the patient for an aortic dissection scan which had shown extremely heavy calcification of the LAD. The patient had continued to have chest pain. Such proficient interpreters include health care assistants and EKG technicians. He was a paramedic at the time.