Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

Antwon D. Robinson, M.D., Theodore L. Schreiber, M.D., and Cindy L. Grines, M.D. A 65-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus ...

Heparin started in the ambulance or emergency department (ED) makes it more likely a patient with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) will present to the cath lab without a ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...