I was just going thru few ECG and found this one very interesting...
If you see carefully-----there is ST depression in V1-v5....you might argue that its Anterior Subendocardial Ischemia or NSTEMI...
When maximal ST-segment depression is in the right precordial leads (V1-V3) as opposed to the left precordial leads (V4-V6) acute posterior STEMI is far more likely.
However, we don't want this patient's reperfusion to be delayed for any reason! It is therefore prudent to capture posterior chest leads V7-V9.
Alternatively (as this crew did) you can capture a 15-lead ECG with leads V4, V5 and V6 in the positions of V4R, V8 and V9.
What is your interpretation of this ECG? The patient's heart rhythm is atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response.
The ST-segment depression and T-wave inversion in the right precordial leads (V1-V3) is concerning and likely represents acute posterior STEMI. In fact, an ECG finding like this should be considered acute STEMI until proven otherwise.
One trick to help identify the STEMI is to "flip" the ECG and hold it up to a light. What you end up looks like this.
Treatment for this patient consisted of 324 mg of aspirin and a 250 ml bolus of 0.9% normal saline. After a short stop in the emergency department the patient was sent to the cardiac cath lab where angiography revealed 100% occlusion of the circumflex artery.
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