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Angiography Can Wait for Cardiac Arrest Without ST-Elevation

A protocol of immediate angiography provided no mortality benefit over a strategy or delayed or more selective angiography among patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and without ...
2 Minute Medicine

Impact of late ventricular fibrillation on postdischarge 1-year mortality of patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction: a nationwide retrospective study

Late ventricular fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction is associated with a markedly increased risk of 1-year ...
TCTMD

No Differences Between Bivalirudin, Unfractionated Heparin in ACS Patients With or Without ST Elevation: MATRIX

(UPDATED) The MATRIX trial found no advantage to bivalirudin over unfractionated heparin in reducing major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) or net adverse cardiovascular events (NACE) in ACS ...
Healio

Anterior Myocardial Infarction

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation myocardial ...
TCTMD

Early Angiography in Cardiac Arrest Patients Beneficial Even in Those Lacking ST-Segment Elevation

Routine use of early angiography and, if needed, reperfusion in patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is standard of care for those with ST-segment elevation. But whether the same ...