Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) is pleased to announce the publication of the Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Patients with STEMI Referred for Primary ...

Coronary angiography could wait among people successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest in the absence of ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI), longer-term results from the COACT trial confirmed.

Primary PCI is the preferred reperfusion method for STEMI, but in the real world, many patients live too far from PCI-capable hospitals to receive timely intervention. Reassuringly, a new study ...

PHILADELPHIA — Immediate coronary angiography and delayed coronary angiography conferred similar outcomes at 1 year in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest but without STEMI, according to new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Patients who presented to the hospital after experiencing an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ...

PHILADELPHIA — Patients who survived an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and did not have signs of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) had similar 1-year survival whether they had immediate or ...

Multivessel coronary artery disease is seen on invasive coronary angiography in approximately 50% of patients presenting with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Previous trials ...

Heart attack remains a major problem in the UK. Urgent treatment reduces the likelihood of death, further heart attack and disability, and can lead to full recovery. Precisely what treatment is ...

Ischemic heart disease is a major cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The role of immediate coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the treatment of patients who have ...

Heparin started in the ambulance or emergency department (ED) makes it more likely a patient with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) will present to the cath lab without a ...