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 ...

A new study published in the journal of PloS One showed that although reoperative therapy with evolocumab with rosuvastatin ...

When timely angioplasty is unavailable to older ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, a modified pharmaco-invasive reperfusion strategy could be reasonable, according to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Sodium thiosulfate, administered before and after reperfusion for STEMI, did not improve infarct ...

When reading the ECG of a patient presenting with cardiopulmonary complaints, the most important duty of acute care clinicians is to determine whether there is evidence of an acute coronary occlusion ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract OBJECTIVE: To determine process factors impacting myocardial infarction reperfusion time. BACKGROUND: An ST-segment elevation myocardial ...

“If a reduction of infarct size from unloading before reperfusion is confirmed in a future trial, this concept would enhance the existing guidelines of immediate reperfusion for STEMI patients,” said ...

The advent of thrombolytic therapy initiated the era of pharmacologic reperfusion in the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI). Although it was a major improvement in the treatment of acute MI ...

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 ...