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

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Her long term outcome (with very large LAD MI and EF of 30%) is unknown. Currently, SCAD is a diagnosis that can only be established emergently in the cath lab with angiography. Otherwise it results in a terrible outcome, as in this case, with devastating permanent loss of myocardium). Is this Left Bundle Branch Block?