What is your intraprocedural approach to reducing time to reperfusion in STEMI cases: opting for culprit lesion PCI first then complete angiography, or complete angiography followed by culprit lesion PCI?

Great inquiry. A lot of it depends on the clinical acuity of the presentation as well as systems-based processes as well. If the patient is more unstable with hypotension/bradycardia or other unstable vital parameters, and the EKG is clearly pointing to a certain territory, then in order to avoid de...

Complete angiography first, it's quick and gives you a lot of info. Sometimes you're surprised, ex the territory you thought based on EKG is a CTO and the culprit is actually somewhere else.