Prehospital activation of the cardiac cath lab not only has a positive impact on performance measures, but also significantly improves both short- and long-term survival, according to new data from ...

The MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, Maryland, hosted a special Heart Month luncheon earlier this year, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An AI-enabled ECG identified patients with STEMI, the worst kind of heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not all centers have catheterization laboratories to treat patients with STEMI, so those centers need to have a ...

The heparin frequently given before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) should be pushed to as early as possible in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to ...

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 ...

April 22, 2009 (Los Angeles, California) — More evidence that a coordinated regional approach to the treatment of STEMI patients, with prehospital triage and cath-lab activation, leads to a consistent ...

The current door-to-balloon time guideline for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients from the American Heart Association is 90 minutes or less. Many hospitals around the country have taken steps ...

Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...

In March, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston became one of ten hospitals awarded accreditation as a Mission: Lifeline Heart Attack Referring/Receiving Center by the American Heart Association ...

Local health systems are investing heavily in cardiac catheterization laboratories as heart failures are expected to balloon in the coming years. According to the American Heart Association, as of ...