And that’s the late STEMI cases that actually make it to the hospital. With an untold number of patients dying at home and no centralized way of tracking unusual presentations that do not end up in ...

Prevention of these complications is of considerable importance, and a vigorous program of antiulcer therapy is indicated in all patients with acute myocardial infarction who present past or ...

Sean van Diepen, MD (University of Alberta, Canada), who was not involved in the present study but has investigated ICU utilization in NSTE-ACS patients, said that “rapid reperfusion does lower the ...

Of 19,507 stable STEMI patients treated at 707 hospitals, 82.3 percent were treated in an ICU with a median one-day ICU stay. Overall, 16.2 percent of patients developed complications requiring ...

More than 80% of stable patients with STEMI who underwent PCI were treated in the ICU after the procedure although the risk for developing a complication was 16%, according to a study published in ...

Researchers found the complication rate dropped to 13.4% for patients with first-medical-contact (FMC)-to-device time of less than 60 minutes. In those treated in 61 to 90 minutes or more than 90 ...

Review Article Published: 16 September 2008 A European perspective on improving acute systems of care in STEMI: we know what to do, but how can we do it? Keith A A Fox & Kurt Huber Nature Clinical ...

The most feared STEMI complications are the emergence of a lethal arrhythmia – a heart rhythm abnormality which can lead to cardiac arrest -- and heart failure as a result of the loss of a large ...

Investigators followed patients for 30 days following the procedure, the timeframe in which STEMI patients are at highest risk for adverse events. The primary goal of the study was to compare the ...

We defined post-TKA complications according to the specifications of the 2019 CMS TKA Complication Measure, which includes acute myocardial infarction complications, mechanical complications ...

The researchers recruited 3,777 patients at 124 clinical centers in China who’d had a STEMI between 2019 and 2020. They were treated within hours of the heart attack by surgical or chemical ...

Spontaneous coronary-artery dissection (SCAD) has emerged as an important cause of myocardial infarction in young persons. SCAD occurs primarily in women, and the prevalence of cardiovascular risk ...