• Timmy Li, Koichiro Shinozaki, Martina Brave, Tsukasa Yagi, and Lance B Becker.
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, United States. Electronic address: TLi2@northwell.edu.
• Am J Emerg Med. 2020 Jul 1; 38 (7): 1346-1351.

ObjectiveA 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the standard of care for chest pain patients. However, 12-lead ECGs have difficulty detecting ischemia of the right ventricle or posterior wall of the heart. New technology exists to mathematically synthesize these leads from a 12-lead ECG; however, this technology has not been evaluated in the emergency department (ED). We assessed the level of agreement between synthesized 18-lead ECGs and actual 18-lead ECGs in identifying ST elevations, ST depressions, and T wave inversions in ED patients.MethodsActual 12- and 18-lead ECGs were acquired and synthesized 18-lead ECGs were produced based on waveforms from 12-lead ECGs. A blinded cardiologist interpreted the actual and synthesized 18-lead ECGs to identify the presence of abnormalities. Using actual 18-lead ECGs as the reference, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and kappa of synthesized 18-lead ECGs in identifying abnormalities were determined.ResultsData from 295 patients were analyzed. There was 100% agreement between synthesized 18-lead ECGs and actual 18-lead ECGs in identifying ST elevations and ST depressions (sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of 100%, and kappa of 1.00). Synthesized 18-lead ECGs had 95% sensitivity, 80% specificity, 97% PPV, and 70% NPV in identifying T wave inversions, when compared with actual 18-lead ECGs (kappa: 0.70).ConclusionSynthesized 18-lead ECGs demonstrated 100% agreement with actual 18-lead ECGs in the identification of ST elevations and ST depressions and good agreement in the identification of T wave inversions in a sample of patients ED patients with complaints suspicious of cardiac origin.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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