A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

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 ...

May 13, 2012 (Las Vegas, Nevada) — The Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) is promoting new appropriate-use criteria (AUC) for diagnostic catheterization as part of its ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are generally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or NPO, before ...

When I recommend that a patient needs coronary angiography (synonyms: heart catheterization,coronary angiogram, cardiac catheterization, or simply “cath”) I take a moment to bring up the risks of the ...

Heparin started in the ambulance or emergency department (ED) makes it more likely a patient with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) will present to the cath lab without a ...