Differential for ST elevation on ECG
Coronary
- Myocardial infarction
- Coronary spasm or Printzmatel angina
- Ischemia with reciprocal changes
Inflammation
- Myocarditis
- Pericarditis
- Post-myocardial infarction syndrome or Dressler’s syndrome
Metabolic
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypothermia—look for Osborne waves (and a cold patient)
Structural
- Brugada syndrome
- Cardiac contusion
- Pulmonary embolism
- Left bundle branch block
- Ventricular aneurysm