Coronary Artery Bypass (CABG) surgeryPM Cardio Queen of Heartsposterior OMIprehospital posterior OMI4 Min Read Steve SmithonJune 12, 2025 60-something with h/o Coronary Bypass has acute chest pain A 60-something with h/o Coronary Bypass called 911 for acute chest pain. Here is the first prehospital ECG: What do you think? There is…
Occlusion MI/Non-Occlusion MI (OMI/NOMI) paradigmreocclusionreperfusionreperfusion and reocclusionTransient OMI6 Min Read Willy FrickonJune 10, 2025 Interns are not (yet) poisoned by the STEMI/NSTEMI paradigm This case was written up by Kuan-Yu (Evan) Lin with some edits by Willy Frick. I (Willy) had the pleasure of working with Evan when he was a…
HOCMInferior OMI SubtleLVH5 Min Read Steve SmithonJune 7, 2025 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with dehydration and chest pain A middle-aged man with a history of HOCM presented with 24 hours of chest pain, still active. He stated that he had been dehydrated for…
LAD OMI missedYoung Women4 Min Read Steve SmithonJune 5, 2025 The worst thing you can be when you have this ECG is to be a young woman This was contributed by a great paramedic, Drew Williams. He now is his agency’s “Clinical Improvement Analyst for…