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Stephen W. Smith
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Stephen W. Smith
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EM Prof at Hennepin. Co-originator of #OcclusionMI (OMI) paradigm, ECG diagnosis of OMI, trained @PMcardioApp. scholar.google.com/citations?hl=e… #ECG
- People always ask me how to persuade cardiologist to take a patient to the Cath Lab. My residents turned my answer into a humorous meme.
- A medical student who is rotating told me that STEMI/Non-STEMI is being replaced by OMI/NOMI and asked me if I had heard of that. @PendellM
- Introducing the OMI Pocket Guide. Smith ECG Blog Posts organized into an amazingly educational collection, with examples of each type of subtle OMI and of mimics. Also on the banner at the top for easy access any time hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/p/omi-pocket-g…
- Replying to @trainwithtish and @DustyB122You think you are thinking for yourself. But you are mimicking the ignorance of so many others who spout disinformation. Your “rebellious” thinking is conformity to ignorance.
- Someone just texted this EKG to me from far away in U.S. Chest pain & vomiting. Cardiologist says "not a STEMI" and shows nothing. But it is diagnostic of inferior OMI. "Work up the patient for a PE," he says (!). These cases come to me all the time and it makes me sick.
- Another deadly and confusing ECG. Are you still one of the many people who will be fooled by this ECG, or do you recognize it instantly? @PendellM hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2022/05/anothe…
- A teenager with chest pain, a troponin below the limit of detection, and "benign early repolarization" hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-teen…
- This ECG is nearly pathognomonic. What is it? (hint: it's not Wellens') hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2022/09/this-e…
- A 19 year old with panic attacks. On the previous ECG, the diagnosis was missed, as it frequently is! hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-19-y…
- Chest pain: This ECG was interpreted as completely NORMAL by the computer: What is the diagnosis, and what about it is THE critical finding (missed by the computer)?? hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2022/02/this-e…
- Lecture by Smith: Selected Cases of Occlusion MI (OMI), or not, on the ECG hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2023/08/lectur…
- See this letter from the Editor of Annals of EM, about our article "ECG Patterns of Occlusion Myocardial Infarction: A Narrative Review. The article has been downloaded over 65,000 times as of Sept 9. "Your manuscript is the most downloaded in our journal for this year – by far
