Hudson Regional Hospital announced Jan. 9 that its Cardiac Catheterization Lab earned New State Department of Health approval for a diagnostic tool used to identify and treat patients with chest pain.

Time is of the essence for STEMI patients undergoing multivessel PCI, a new meta-analysis suggests. In select patients, treating the culprit and nonculprit lesions all at once—at the time of the index ...

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Patients with STEMI and multivessel disease who underwent a single-procedure multivessel PCI had improved outcomes compared with those who underwent culprit-only PCI, according to a meta-analysis ...

The current door-to-balloon time guideline for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients from the American Heart Association is 90 minutes or less. Many hospitals around the country have taken steps ...

Guidelines recommend that patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receive emergency percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 min, yet treatment within this timeframe is ...

In patients who had a coronary stent inserted after experiencing the most severe type of heart attack, the use of a technique that measures blood flow and pressure through a partially blocked artery ...

Local health systems are investing heavily in cardiac catheterization laboratories as heart failures are expected to balloon in the coming years. According to the American Heart Association, as of ...

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Mondays seem to be bad for your heart, according to new research from the British Heart Foundation. The most dangerous type of heart attack, known as a STEMI, is more likely to occur on a Monday than ...