Tag: occlusion myocardial infarction

Upping Our ECG Game: OMI vs STEMI

by Salim Rezaie posted May 10, 2021 No Comments

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 use STEMI ECG criteria to identify acute coronary OMI in the clinical setting. The diagnosis ...

Cardiovascular

OMI-NOMI: Time for a Paradigm Shift

by Shyam Murali posted February 8, 2021 No Comments

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 late 20th century, many large trials showed the benefits of emergent reperfusion therapy, with even ...

Cardiovascular