Interventional cardiology has revolutionized the approach to cardiovascular diseases, particularly in the management of acute coronary syndromes, such as ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest varies widely across hospitals in the United States, even when the arrest occurs in the highly controlled setting of a cardiac catheterization lab, a new study ...

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 ...

Yolanda Carter, RN, MSN, JD, began her career in the 1980s working as a trauma nurse in a Texas emergency department, where she would often accompany STEMI patients to the cath lab, and fell in love ...

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 ...

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 ...