The American Heart Association has awarded Washington Regional three Get with the Guidelines achievement awards.

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

The Clarinda Regional Health Center has received a trio of awards recognizing the hospital's treatment of stroke and cardiac ...

The recognition is tied to treatment guidelines meant to support better outcomes and fewer hospital readmissions.

Background Access to individual percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) centres has traditionally been determined by historical referral patterns along arbitrarily defined geographic boundaries. We ...

Researchers wanted to find out if new statin guidelines were affecting the number of heart attacks. What they found was promising, but revealed a basic flaw in preventive care. For decades, national ...

A STEMI heart attack is caused by a complete blockage in one of the coronary arteries. Symptoms of a STEMI heart attack can include chest pain, sweating, and shortness of breath. STEMI is the most ...

Background There are limited prediction models of long-term mortality for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Against this ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based ECG interpretation outperformed standard pathways for the detection of occlusive myocardial infarction (MI), according to a study presented today at ESC Acute ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based ECG interpretation outperformed standard pathways for the detection of occlusive myocardial infarction (MI), according to a study presented at ESC Acute ...

Introduction Advances in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) management have involved improving the clinical processes connecting patients with timely emergency cardiovascular care.

A total of 46 variables were included in the final dataset, comprising demographic information, cardiovascular history, and laboratory measurements. These features included: gender, age, total ...