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 ...
Immediate coronary angiography might, in fact, be harmful for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) but without ST-segment elevation, according to a new Bayesian analysis combining ...
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.
(UPDATED) Rushing resuscitated cardiac arrest patients swiftly to coronary angiography as opposed to taking a more selective or delayed approach doesn’t save lives or improve neurologic outcomes, the ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous studies determined that FFR-guided PCI is superior to angiography-guided PCI in patients with chronic ...
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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The TOMAHAWK trial included 554 patients (median age, 70 years; 30% women) with resuscitated out-of-hospital ...
In patients who had a coronary stent inserted after experiencing the most severe type of heart attack, the use of a technique that measures blood flow and pressure through a partially blocked artery ...
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 ...