The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) have issued new performance and quality measures for the treatment of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI, abandoning some ...

The effects of regionalized STEMI treatment protocols do not seem to have positively or negatively affected patients diagnosed with NSTEMI, according to new California registry data. The widespread ...

Freeman Heart & Vascular Institute has earned Level 1 STEMI designation from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Freeman Health System previously received Level 1 honors in 2017, ...

Medical Management/Treatment Initial treatment for suspected STEMI and NSTEMI requires a loading dose of nonenteric coated ASA at 162 to 325 mg (unless contraindicated), nitroglycerin in response to ...

For patients with either NSTEMI or STEMI, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines recommend that intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) be dosed by weight with ...

Following cardiac catheterization, patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a higher ...

The comparative efficacy of various anticoagulation strategies has not been clearly established in patients with acute myocardial infarction who are undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...

Electrocardiography is performed in the emergency department to test for myocardial infarction. Image courtesy of Harrington et al. A 56-year-old woman presents to a rural emergency department with ...