Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...

Unrecognized MI Prevalent in Older Adults, Ups Mortality Use of an automated electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) activates the protocol for ...

Acute myocardial infarction with or without ST-segment elevation (STEMI or non-STEMI) is a common cardiac emergency, with the potential for substantial morbidity and mortality. The management of ...

On initial hospital presentation, only about 50% of patients presenting with chest pain have an ECG diagnostic of acute MI. Of the remaining patients with non-diagnostic ECGs, the tracing may be ...

This frequently coincides with an inferior wall MI due to the shared blood supply. The ECG findings of an acute posterior wall MI include the following: ST segment depression (not elevation ...

Dallas, TX - Emergency department (ED) personnel failed to identify important, high-risk features on the electrocardiograms of about one in eight patients presenting with an acute MI in a ...

(HealthDay)—Use of an automated electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) activates the protocol for referral to the cardiac catheterization ...

Of 1684 patients with acute MI presenting to the ED at five centers in California and Colorado, all members of health-maintenance organizations, about 12% had a high-risk ECG abnormality such as T ...