WAMAMI: emergency physicians can accurately identify wall motion abnormalities in acute myocardial infarction

The ability to identify wall motion abnormalities may be useful for emergency clinicians, but is not typically evaluated in point-of-care echocardiograms. We sought to determine if emergency physicians with basic training in emergency echocardiography could identify regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA) in patients admitted with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - April 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Peter E. Croft, Tania D. Strout, Randy M. Kring, Laura Director, Samip C. Vasaiwala, David C. Mackenzie Source Type: research