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.

Door-to-balloon times were no higher than when cath lab staff donned traditional lead aprons in this single-center experience ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We found that the total time to reperfusion was strongly related to infarct size and clinical outcomes, whereas ...

Time is of the essence for STEMI patients undergoing multivessel PCI, a new meta-analysis suggests. In select patients, treating the culprit and nonculprit lesions all at once—at the time of the index ...

Patients with STEMI and multivessel disease who underwent a single-procedure multivessel PCI had improved outcomes compared with those who underwent culprit-only PCI, according to a meta-analysis ...

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The current door-to-balloon time guideline for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients from the American Heart Association is 90 minutes or less. Many hospitals around the country have taken steps ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- A new protocol used to transfer heart attack patients via helicopter from the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital has safely and significantly reduced overall ...

May 23, 2011 (Paris, France) — Use of radial PCI in the treatment of STEMI patients in Sweden is associated with a 22% reduction in mortality and lower rates of bleeding and rehospitalizations, a new ...