Peter Attia· MD
And that is a medical emergency immediately signal blockage. we need to open this artery.
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And that is a medical emergency immediately signal blockage. we need to open this artery.
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What people realized was that if that segment gets increased above a couple of millimeters, and it does so in more than one lead, that that signaled that there was a complete blockage of an artery. And that then evolved into this term that we use today still, which is called ST elevation MI or STEMI.