The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is tailored to the staff of the Mount Washington Valley EMS Program and the Memorial Hospital, but is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 22 - OMI and NOMI...the Death of the NSTEMI?
STEMI and NSTEMI have been the unchallenged terminology for too long. However, unlike the modern culture of just simply changing things to see them changed, the push across interventional cardiology to change "STEMI" and "NSTEMI" to OMI and NOMI is driven out of the understanding that:
a) Traditional STEMI criteria just flat out miss too many occlusions, and
b) Traditional NSTEMI criteria and dogma leads us to put NSTEMI patients lower on the totem pole, leading to delays in PCI and irreparable damage...
Join me and take a look at the new OMI criteria, OMI diagnostic algorithm, and really take a deep dive into how we are in need of better care of our NSTEMI patients!
