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Management of STEMI (ST-Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction)

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I B ECG monitoring should start immediately and a defibrillator must be ready. IIa C During hospital stay (after primary PCI) Either stress echo, CMR, SPECT, or PET may be used to assess myocardial ischaemia and viability, including in multivessel CAD. STEMI , ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction ).

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A man in his 30s with cardiac arrest and STE on the post-ROSC ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

It was reportedly a PEA arrest; there was no recorded V Fib and no defibrillation. On epinephrine and norepinephrine drips." Perhaps the most common would be fixed CAD and post-cardiac arrest causing hypotension and low flow through the chronic lesion, resulting in true transmural injury but subsides when normal perfusion is returned.

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