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SGEM#344: We Will…We Will Cath You – But should We After An OHCA Without ST Elevations?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He is interested and experienced in healthcare informatics, previously worked with ED-directed EMR design, and is involved in the New York City Health and Hospitals Healthcare Administration Scholars Program (HASP). Lemke et al 2019 published a multicentre RCT done in the Netherlands looking at patients without ST se.

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OMI-NOMI paradigm established as better than STEMI-NSTEMI with new article

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Their OMI Manifesto details how use of standard STEMI criteria results in an unacceptable level of inaccuracy, in which an estimated 25-30% of acute coronary occlusions are missed! The article by Aslanger, Smith et al that is featured above in today’s post has just been published.

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Physical Examination as a Helpful Aid in Decision-Making in Challenging ECGs

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was contributed by Co-editor Emre Aslanger, an interventional cardiologist in Turkey. As per Dr. Aslanger — a number of medical providers were initial confused by what initially appears as marked ST elevation with reciprocal ST depression, indicative of an acute STEMI. That was also my initial concern.

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Sometimes even ST Elevation meeting criteria is not enough to be convincing

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Emre Aslanger. Emre is a new Editor of the Blog. 2019 Apr;21(5):253-258. PMID: 34523597. == MY Comment by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 11/13/2022 ): == Highly interesting case by Emre Aslanger. He is an interventionalist in Turkey. Bozbeyoğlu E, Yıldırımtürk Ö, Aslanger E, Şimşek B, Karabay CY, Özveren O, Değertekin MM.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

STEMI MINOCA versus NSTEMI MINOCA STEMI occurs in the presence of transmural ischaemia due to transient or persistent complete occlusion of the infarct-related coronary artery. This has resulted in an under-representation of STEMI MINOCA patients in the literature. From Gue at al. Circulation. 2017;135(16):1490–3.