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Dr. Gianluca Campo and Dr. C Michael Gibson Discuss: EARTH-STEMI – Complete vs. culprit-only revascularization in older STEMI patients

Clinical Trial Results

Copy of Campo_Gianluca Download Disclosures: TBD

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STEMI Breakthrough: Looking beyond Primary PCI with “Intra-coronary liquid oxygen”

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

” R outine nasal Oxygen has little use in the management of STEMI. cit0923_ft_zoll-1 Download Final message Innovation and experimentation is must be allowed as liberally as possible. It is tough to consider oxygen as a “powerful and magical drug”, because it is freely available everywhere.”

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Our OMI Toolbox Application is out now !

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Furthermore, some ECGs may not meet the STEMI criteria but may still be diagnostic for acute coronary occlusion (ACO). The App can be download from Apple App Store and Google Play Store in English, Turkish, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Azerbaijani ( according to your phone's language ). For download: Enjoy !

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ECG #413 — A Pre-Op ECG in an ASx Patient

Ken Grauer, MD

Another overlooked OMI ( Cardiologist limited by STEMI Definition — OMI evident by Mirror Test ) — See My Comment at the bottom of the page in the September 21, 2020 post on Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog. This is a free download ). Smith’s ECG Blog.

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Two patients with RBBB

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He commented: "by every measure, this would be RBBB with inferior and lateral STE appearing to be STEMI," but he also noted that there are several features that appear similar to false positives (like the first case above). There is also much STE in V3-V6, especially V4-V6, that must be considered to be STEMI. Peak troponin was 3.21

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Viral symptoms, then acute chest pain and this ECG. What do you do?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Cases of acute MI that were initially misdiagnosed as myo- or peri-carditis: 24 yo woman with chest pain: Is this STEMI? For those who want to read more on "My Take" regarding the E CG D iagnosis of A cute P ericarditis — CLICK HERE for a download of this Section. What happens then? Pericarditis? Beware a negative Bedside ultrasound.

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ECG Blog #472 — At Least 4 Major Findings

Ken Grauer, MD

PEARL # 3: Knowing there is an acute inferior STEMI I looked next to see if there is also acute posterior involvement ( which so often accompanies inferior MI ). But larger-than-expected Q waves in each of the inferior leads ( especially in lead III ) are probably the result of this patients ongoing acute inferior STEMI.

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