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Do you need to be a trained health care professional to diagnose subtle OMI on the ECG?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Such proficient interpreters include health care assistants and EKG technicians. But they have an interest in ECGs, lots of exposure to OMI ECGs as well as normals and mimics, an interest in acute coronary occlusion, and a talent for seeing the subtle waveform findings of acute OMI. He was a paramedic at the time.