An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that mines ECG data and alerts the primary PCI team to activate the cath lab can reduce STEMI patients’ arrival times by as much as 10 minutes, according to ...

I was involved in a malpractice case a couple of years ago as a consultant. The case involved an emergency physician who was being sued for failure to make a rapid diagnosis of an ST-segment elevation ...

Some clinicians say that testing for occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) instead might be a better tool for making that determination. “We think we should get rid of the term ST-elevation MI, ...

Prof Aditya Kapoor, head of the cardiology department at SGPGIMS, said, "It's a leap forward in reducing preventable cardiac deaths in UP... Heart diseases are the leading cause of death, accounting ...

A 50-year-old woman experiences jaw discomfort while at work. It increases in intensity, accompanied by diaphoresis and nausea. An ambulance is called 40 minutes after symptom onset. On arrival to the ...

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 ...

European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients with ST-segment elevation are published online today in European Heart Journal, and on the ...

Technically, the diagnosis of an anterior myocardial infarction on an ECG has never been validated in the setting of a paced rhythm, however that was the case in this ECG. There was acute occlusion of ...