When reading the ECG of a patient presenting with cardiopulmonary complaints, the most important duty of acute care clinicians is to determine whether there is evidence of an acute coronary occlusion ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; Sharen Lee, Gary Tse, Xin Wang, Adrian Baranchuk and Tong Liu from Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology, Hong Kong, China, ...

Impairment of microvascular integrity and myocardial perfusion occur in a large number of patients despite swift reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The collective assessment of ...

Her initial electrocardiogram shows an initial ST depression followed by positive deflections leads I and aVL. Non-physiological ST segment and T-wave changes were also observed in the precordial ...

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 ...

If we look only at V1-2, this is a typical ECG pattern of Brugada syndrome. However, the base of the T waves in V4-6 quickly come together, making the T wave narrow, tented, and pointed. This T-wave ...

A substantial proportion of patients receiving fibrinolytic therapy for myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation have inadequate reperfusion or reocclusion of the infarct-related artery, ...

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 ...

ST-segment elevation on the EKG in COVID-19 patients was especially complex and had poor prognosis in a small case series from New York City hospitals. Confirmed COVID-19 was complicated by ST-segment ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., -- St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced that the first patient in a clinical study examining the safety and effectiveness of an ST segment ...