Hudson Regional Hospital announced Jan. 9 that its Cardiac Catheterization Lab earned New State Department of Health approval for a diagnostic tool used to identify and treat patients with chest pain.

WASHINGTON, DC—For STEMI patients undergoing PCI, pretreatment with a loading dose of unfractionated heparin at first medical contact improves spontaneous reperfusion of the infarct-related 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Plainview Hospital has now treated 100 ST-elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, patients through its new cardiac catheterization laboratory. The hospital held a celebration on May 12 to ...

The implementation of a smartphone-based application to aid with communication about STEMI patients coming in from the field has enabled one large health system to drop its EMS-to-balloon time by 10 ...