The following is a summary of “Continuous quality improvement for prehospital STEMI improved triage rates and achievement of ...

Poor performance on quality metrics carried greater risk of in-hospital mortality no matter where patients initially ...

Our American Heart Month coverage wraps up tonight with a look at some of the most deadly cardiovascular issues and how they’re treated at the level one STEMI center at Freeman “We developed the Heart ...

Research has linked higher levels of air pollution to the risk of acute myocardial infarctions, or heart attacks. How these ...

It’s just not good. So let’s go over the ECG findings in STEMI — again, and again, and again — with multiple examples. This way, you can drill into your memory what each type of STEMI ...

Initial medical management of STEMI consists of relief of ischemic pain with nitrates and morphine, antithrombotic measures including antiplatelet agents (aspirin, thienopyridines and glycoprotein ...

Thus, lytic agents -- which are more readily available -- continue to play a very prominent role in the management of STEMI. [33] Fibrinolytic therapy can be administered in most centers within 30 ...

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Canada: A new study highlights that the guidance patients receive from physicians regarding resuming driving after a ...

For patients with either NSTEMI or STEMI, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines recommend that intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) be dosed by weight ...

Following cardiac catheterization, patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a ...