I was involved in a malpractice case a couple of years ago as a consultant. The case involved an emergency physician who was being sued for failure to make a rapid diagnosis of an ST-segment elevation ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that mines ECG data and alerts the primary PCI team to activate the cath lab can reduce STEMI patients’ arrival times by as much as 10 minutes, according to ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns ...

Patients who have a ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction while hospitalized for other conditions experience delays in reperfusion when compared with those who have a STEMI while outside the ...

Technically, the diagnosis of an anterior myocardial infarction on an ECG has never been validated in the setting of a paced rhythm, however that was the case in this ECG. There was acute occlusion of ...

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 ...

Prof Aditya Kapoor, head of the cardiology department at SGPGIMS, said, "It's a leap forward in reducing preventable cardiac deaths in UP... Heart diseases are the leading cause of death, accounting ...

Twenty five years after the Institute of Cardio-Vascular Diseases at Madras Medical Mission was inaugurated, STEMI was launched in India today. STEMI (ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction) is a ‘not for ...