Bivens, Matt MD. "STEMI Critics Are Right. We're Missing Too Many Heart Attacks." Emergency Medicine News 47(3):p 2,11,15, April 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/01.EEM.0000000000000015 Our goal in diagnosing acute coronary syndromes is not to diagnose ST-elevations but coronary artery occlusions leading to myocardial infarction (OMI). In the past, we diagnosed heart attacks by looking for Q-waves, thus missing all the … Continue reading Occlusion MI
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Prolonged QT Syndrome and Torsades de Pointes
Dr. Dan Seitz and I were working one day when he showed me this awesome EKG. Loved it. So I made a whole video on about it.
Low Risk Chest Pain in the ED
I had a conversation with a few of the residents about the management of low risk chest pain in the Emergency Department. The issues which always seem to come up are: If the first troponin is normal, can I send them home? I don't think this is cardiac, let's just get one troponin and then … Continue reading Low Risk Chest Pain in the ED
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