| 12-Lead ECG in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Practical Approach for Clinicians To facilitate correct diagnosis and guide management, the authors use a consistent sequence to explain the ECG abnormalities for each site of coronary occlusion. A schematic of the coronary tree illustrates the point of occlusion. Dr. Antonio Bayés de Luna is Director of the Institut Catala de Cardiologia - Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, and Full Professor of Cardiology in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Dr. Miguel Fiol-Sala is chief of the intensive coronary care unit in Hospital Son Dureta, Palma, Mallorca. Elliott M. Antman , M.D. is the Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Director of the Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Unit at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. |