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 ...
Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...
Posterior STEMI, usually associated with occlusion of an anatomically dominant right coronary artery, may present with ST segment depression in V1 to V3 instead of elevation, because the ST elevation ...