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 ...

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 ...

Upstream activation of the catheterization laboratory by emergency medical services (EMS) technicians and emergency department physicians for patients suspected of suffering an ST-segment elevation ...

Discover how machine learning models are revolutionizing the diagnosis of occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) in patients with acute chest pain. Machine learning models surpass clinicians and ...

PARIS, France—Among patients with acute MI and occlusive disease on invasive angiography, those presenting without ST-segment elevation on the initial ECG fare worse than those with STEMI, researchers ...

Sooner was not better when using ECG to determine candidates for urgent coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to the PEACE study from Europe. The earlier the ECG ...

Pericarditis, or inflammation of the pericardium, has typical ECG findings. These findings occur in progressive stages, all of which are seen in about 50% of cases of pericarditis. Stage I (acute ...

For patients in Canada, 2 strategies may be initiated in the emergent treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) — primary percutaneous coronary intervention or fibrinolytic drug ...