In 1990, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) produced their first guideline for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). This ...
A 50-year-old woman experiences jaw discomfort while at work. It increases in intensity, accompanied by diaphoresis and nausea. An ambulance is called 40 minutes after symptom onset. On arrival to the ...
An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that mines ECG data and alerts the primary PCI team to activate the cath lab can reduce STEMI patients’ arrival times by as much as 10 minutes, according to ...
Competing interests: None declared for Drs. Bogaty and O'Neill. Dr. Armstrong has received research funding from Hoffmann–La Roche, Aventis and Boehringer Ingelheim, and educational and consultant ...
Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains highly prevalent in the Indian population, with Indians facing a three-four times ...
Patients presenting late to the hospital with STEMI fare “remarkably” worse than people who get to the hospital within the first 12 hours after symptom onset, but late presentation in and of itself ...