Poor performance on quality metrics carried greater risk of in-hospital mortality no matter where patients initially ...

The following is a summary of “Continuous quality improvement for prehospital STEMI improved triage rates and achievement of ...

Research has linked higher levels of air pollution to the risk of acute myocardial infarctions, or heart attacks. How these ...

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 ...

The Lake County coroner says Vista Medical Center East is “gambling with people’s lives” after the hospital decided to reduce ...

There are conditions that mimic STEMI, and distinguishing these can be difficult; these are described in Diagnosis. Tissue factor, a key protein component of the clotting cascade, is located ...

Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...