Our OMI Toolbox Application is out now !
We are happy to announce that our “OMI Toolbox” application has just released and ready for your use. As myocardial…
Sometimes even ST Elevation meeting criteria is not enough to be convincing
Written by Emre Aslanger. Emre is a new Editor of the Blog. He is an interventionalist in Turkey. A 50 something-year-old man with…
To activate or not to activate?
Written by Pendell Meyers, with edits by Steve Smith I was texted this ECG with no clinical information: (This will be called ECG-2) What do…
High ST Elevation in a Patient with Acute Chest Pain
I was shown this ECG of a 50-something with acute chest pain: What do you think? I replied that this ST Elevation in precordial leads was…
Ed Burns (from Life in the Fast Lane) sent me this one….
Ed Burns (who is the creator of the incredible, fantastic, Life in the Fast Lane ECG library) sent me this one…. This is a from a…
Chest pain, ST elevation, and negative serial trops: normal variant (“early repol”). Right?
Case A 58 year old man presented with intermittent chest pain for 2 weeks. He has active pain at the time of this initial ECG: QTc is 455 ms…
Anatomy of a Missed LAD Occlusion (classified as a NonSTEMI)
A male in his 50’s called 911 for constant 8/10 midsternal chest pressure. Here was his prehospital ECG: Computerized QTc is 423…
COPD exacerbation, what do the ECG and bedside echo show?
A woman in her 60s presented with a COPD exacerbation. She also complained of some sharp chest pain with coughing. She was in moderate…
45 year old with chest pain
A 45-year-old male was in his usual state of health until three hours prior to arrival, when he developed left-sided chest pressure with…
Instructions for using subtleSTEMI iPhone app
Some have asked for instructions in using the app: 1. The warning states that it should only be used when the…