Adult male chest pain | Figure 1

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Registered Nurse

Adult male chest pain

Male in his 40s self presents to the emergency department with wife driving reporting 3 days of gradually increasing chest pain, to where it is now severe and unbearable. Reports that it “feels like an elephant sitting on his chest” pt was grey and tachypnoeic and taken immediately to resus.

ECG as above. What are your next steps?

Diagnosis added by author

STEMI

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