The essential problem is that not all hospitals have the capacity to perform PCI, making it impossible to implement the STEMI ...

Cutting edge imaging, rapid PCI protocols, and patient centered follow up improving outcomes for acute coronary syndromes.

Just one in three North American patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) for STEMI complicated by cardiogenic shock (STEMI-CS) would meet the high bar set for entry into the DanGer ...

April 22, 2009 (Los Angeles, California) — More evidence that a coordinated regional approach to the treatment of STEMI patients, with prehospital triage and cath-lab activation, leads to a consistent ...

Hospitals that apply a comprehensive protocol when providing STEMI care stand to improve key process metrics for patients irrespective of their race, data from the Cleveland Clinic suggest. In the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Smoking seems to play a bigger role in acute ST-segment-elevation MI (STEMI) in patients younger than 35 years compared with older age groups. A study based on Michigan data suggests ...

A large randomized controlled trial of ischemic postconditioning in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack—ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)—failed to show ...

Testing positive for recreational drugs at the time of admission with acute coronary syndrome was associated with increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events in the following year, ...

The benefits of complete revascularization over culprit-only coronary artery revascularisation were confirmed in older patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel ...

A new study published in the journal of JACC Advances revealed that recreational drug use detected at the time of admission ...

For patients with COVID-19 and STEMI, percutaneous coronary intervention remains the treatment of choice. For patients with COVID-19 and NSTEMI, conservative therapy is reasonable in hemodynamically ...

While acute myocardial infarction—commonly referred to as a heart attack—remains a leading cause of death in the United States, deaths have decreased significantly over the past two decades in part ...