Posterior Occlusion Myocardial Infarctions and STDmaxV1-4
December 9, 2021
Background: Not all occlusion myocardial infarctions (OMIs) present with classic ST-segment elevation (We have covered this on REBEL EM Before HERE, HERE, and HERE). OMIs...
Marco Torres
Rebellion21: Time to Evolve – Redefining Coronary Ischemia – The OMI/NOMI Paradigm via Tarlan Hedayati, MD
October 3, 2021
In this 14-minute presentation from Rebellion in EM 2021, Dr. Tarlan Hedayati, MD discusses the shift from the paradigm of STEMI/NSTEMI to OMI/NOMI. ...
Upping Our ECG Game: OMI vs STEMI
May 10, 2021
Background: Occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) is defined as acute coronary occlusion or near occlusion with insufficient collateral circulation leading to downstream myocardial infarction. Currently, we...
OMI-NOMI: Time for a Paradigm Shift
February 8, 2021
Background: What if we lived in a world where we didn’t call “STEMI alerts”, but instead paged out “OMI alerts”? In the Reperfusion Era of the...
The DIFOCCULT Trial: Time to Change from STEMI/NSTEMI to OMI/NOMI?
October 8, 2020
Background: Prior to the discovery of thrombolytics, clinicians could only observe their patients completing their myocardial infarctions and then classify them according to whether their...
ECG Cases 9 – First Diagonal Occlusion
May 18, 2020
Seven patients with ischemic symptoms, none meeting STEMI criteria but all identified by a specific pattern of first diagonal branch occlusion are explored in this...
Jesse McLaren
ECG Cases 4: Lateral STEMI or Occlusion MI?
December 16, 2019
In this ECG Cases blog we look at seven patients with potentially ischemic symptoms and subtle ECG changes in the lateral leads. Which had acute...