Immediate coronary angiography for resuscitated cardiac arrest patients without signs of heart attack doesn't help, the COACT trial showed at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting in New ...

The Plainview Hospital has now treated 100 ST-elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, patients through its new cardiac catheterization laboratory. The hospital held a celebration on May 12 to ...

Prehospital activation of the cardiac cath lab not only has a positive impact on performance measures, but also significantly improves both short- and long-term survival, according to new data from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Monday, July 29, Loudonville resident and University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center employee Catherine White came to the ...

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 ...

Every year, three million people have what’s known as STEMI, or ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction, where one of the main arteries to the heart is 100-percent blocked. “The heart muscle is dying, and ...