Question: elderly woman presents to the hospital with altered mental status and this ECG. Should the cath lab be activated? What do you think is going on?
Answer: Don't activate the cath lab. The patient had hypothermia with a core temperature of 30C. Osborne waves are notable (especially in V3). Other features of hypothermia include sinus bradycardia and first-degree AV block. The ST elevation in V2 reflects a pseudoinfarction pattern due to hypothermia. Hypothermia can also cause a Brugada pattern, but I don't think this is truly a Brugada pattern (V2 resembles a saddleback, but this is merely due to a superposition of ST elevation with an Osborne wave).
Clinical management: Echocardiography revealed normal ventricular function. Troponin was negative. With rewarming, this ECG pattern disappeared.
Further discussion of ECG changes in hypothermia here.