Types of MI's

Try this site, http://www.rjmatthewsmd.com/Definiti...infarction.htm. You can click on the various links to see diagrams.

Hope this helps.

Have you taken 12 lead ECG yet? A key point in this class is the different MIs, how they present on the ECG, and the specific arteries involved. 12 lead is a good place to start building your knowledge around the different MIs.

Funny - I found a RN Magazine from 02 today that I hadn't read yet and was reading about types of MI's . . .it had a chart too. I don't know if you can look at archives of the magazine but it was in May 2002 and called "Left vs. Right ventricular MI: Which is it?" by Kimberley Litton.

steph

Hi
There is great little pocketbook called "ECGs Made Easy, Pocket Reference" By Barbara Aehlert, RN.

It's fairly easy. But take a 12 lead course. Your cath lab will usually have a few pocket guides.

RCA = inf wall (70-80% of the time) leads II,III & AVF
LAD & Diag's = Ant septal V1-V3
Circ and OM's= Ant lat V4-V6 (or Inf 20% of the time depending on if the RCA or the Circ give rise to the vessle called the PDA)

STEMI = ST elevation MI in those leads mentioned with or without a Q wave. A Q wave is a perment scare and should not be present in any lead with the excemption of V1 (called a septal Q) and not deeper than 1/3 the hight of the R wave.

Non-STEMI is T wave inversion or ST depression (ishemia) with corrolating trops.