74yo male went to his local urgent care for chest pain. MD d | Figure 1

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74yo male went to his local urgent care for chest pain. MD did EKG and contacted our hospital. Patient flown directly from urgent care to us. EKG above taken upon arrival to ED and showed significantly more elevation than one taken at urgent care. Pt changed, lined, and labbed as prep for cath lab. Door to cath lab time: 7 minutes. Patients trops trended s/p cath and maxed out our readings at ">200". Today they came down to 70. Sorry for the poor picture quality.

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