Identifying an acute myocardial infarction ... Recall that the anterior leads are technically V3 and V4; however, it is common for the septum and/or lateral wall to be involved during anterior ...

To be eligible to enter the trial, patients had to have a first episode of anterior AMI, Killip class I to II, and an acceptable echocardiographic window. On ECG there had to be an ST elevation of ...

• Ultrasound guidance may lead to a higher first-attempt success rate and improved time to successful common femoral artery (CFA) access, while reducing the venipuncture rate (unintentionally ...

Millions of people around the world live with cardiac arrhythmias. Only in Spain, it is estimated that more than one million ...

Individuals who present with acute myocardial infarction in the absence of standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (ie, SMuRF‐less) seem to have a significantly increased risk of mortality; ...

Over 80% of these fatalities result from heart attacks and strokes. December is notorious for being the biggest month for heart attacks, with one of the most dangerous being the widowmaker heart ...

Understand the underlying mechanisms of mechanical complications after acute myocardial infarction (AMI ... and dysfunction, free wall rupture (FWR), left ventricular (LV) aneurysm and pseudoaneurysm ...

The differential diagnosis includes acute inferior wall infarction, pericarditis, myocarditis, vasospasm (Prinzmetal’s syndrome) and Takotsubo syndrome. Based on the ECG changes, acute myocardial ...

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