have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a higher risk of long-term mortality, Mark Chan and colleagues report. Current data on the difference in ...

For patients with either NSTEMI or STEMI, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines recommend that intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) be dosed by weight ...

Patients were eligible if they had ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or large non-ST elevation myocardial infarction ...

This latest ACC/AHA guidance, developed in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians, the National Association of EMS Physicians, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography ...

Patients experiencing unstable angina have a lower incidence of coronary thrombosis compared to those with non-ST segment elevation MI (non-STEMI) or ST segment elevation MI (STEMI). Unstable ...

For patients with ACS undergoing DES implantation, de-escalating DAPT to P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy is associated with lower bleeding risk.

non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI): These are major changes since the last DAPT guideline, from 2016, which had only ...

The physical examination findings during STEMI are similar to those of stable angina, unstable angina and non-STEMI, although frequently more dramatic due to the larger proportion of ischemic ...

The heparin standing orders for this site resulted in 100% excess dosing on the ACTION metric for STEMI patients due to the substantially lower limits set for excess dosing (60 U/kg bolus maximum ...

3,132 with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI); 3,023 with non-STEMI (NSTEMI); and 2,975 with unstable angina. The researchers found no difference in the rate of the primary ...