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Prehospital 12-lead ECG and outcomes in acute coronary syndrome

Importance/background The 12-lead ECG is recommended in clinical guidelines for prehospital assessment of patients with ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Referral to Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Analysis of the Get With The Guidelines–Coronary Artery Disease Registry

BACKGROUND: Despite strong guideline recommendations for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) following an acute myocardial infarction ...
Medical Xpress

Comparison of segmentation algorithms for detecting myocardial infarction

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Yibo Sun and collaborators at China and Capital Medical University, Beijing, China have compared segmentation algorithms for ...
Medical Xpress

Performance of European Society of Cardiology 0/1-, 0/2-, 0/3-hour algorithms for acute myocardial infarction compared

(HealthDay)—Sensitivities and negative predictive values (NPVs) are higher for the 2020 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour and 0/2-hour algorithms than the 0/3-hour algorithm for ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Management of Antithrombotic Therapy after Acute Coronary Syndromes

Because of rapidly changing guidelines in response to multiple clinical trials of new therapies, the management of antithrombotic agents for patients after an acute coronary syndrome is becoming ...
Medical News Today

What is the difference between myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction?

Myocardial ischemia is a drop in blood flow to the heart. Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when death or damage occurs in the muscle tissue of the heart due to low blood supply. The ...