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Should We Be Looking for ‘Occlusion MI’ Rather Than STEMI?

Some clinicians say that testing for occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) instead might be a better tool for making that determination. “We think we should get rid of the term ST-elevation MI, ...
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TCT 251: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effect of Pre-hospital ECG Transmission for ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients on Door to Device Time and Mortality

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Improved diagnosis of occlusion myocardial infarction using novel machine learning tools

In a recently published study in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers developed and tested an intelligent model for diagnosing patients with occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI). This model was ...
Medical Xpress

AI ECG better detects severe heart attacks in emergency setting, and have fewer false positives

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Scotoma relief following MI therapy

A 73-year-old man who had both high BP and high cholesterol suffered an inferior-wall MI. ECG findings showed non-Q-wave, non-ST-segment elevation. Stents were implanted in his right and left coronary ...