A new seven factor score predicts long term mortality after ST-elevation myocardial infarction in patients who undergo ...

A new study published in Clinical Cardiology introduces the North Indian (NORIN) ST‐Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Registry and provides preliminary data collected since its start in ...

CHICAGO, IL—(UPDATED) Most cath labs have abandoned bivalirudin during primary PCI in the wake of multiple trials showing no advantages over heparin, but investigators for the BRIGHT-4 study say that ...

San Francisco, CA—Results of the randomized EUROMAX trial show that administering bivalirudin to STEMI patients en route to the hospital for primary PCI reduces the primary outcome of short-term death ...

Specific measures using a Six Sigma approach led to sustained reduction of door-to-balloon times among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in a community setting. Each ...

Many fewer Americans are falling prey to the most dangerous form of heart attack, a new study says. STEMI (ST‐segment-elevation myocardial infarction) heart attacks have declined by nearly 50% during ...

Swapping out intravenous fentanyl in favor of IV acetaminophen in patients with ST-elevation MI (STEMI) provides comparable pain relief but with desirably higher blood levels of ticagrelor both ...

Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...

USA: Researchers have found in a new study that patients who develop ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) while ...