Symptoms of Myocardial Infarction: Concordance between Paramedic and Hospital Records
Can prehospital records show concordance between myocardial infarction symptoms when compared with hospital records and ED diagnosis?
Chest Pain in an Out-of-Hospital Emergency Setting: No Relationship Between Pain Severity and Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Is there a relationship between the severity of chest pain at the time of out-of-hospital emergency care and diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction?
2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
References 1. O’Gara PT, Kushner FG, Ascheim DD, Casey DE Jr, Chung MK, de Lemos JA, Ettinger SM, Fang JC, Fesmire FM, Franklin BA, Granger CB, Krumholz HM, Linderbaum JA, Morrow DA, Newby LK, Ornato JP, Ou N, Radford MJ, Tamis-Holland JE, Tommaso CL, Tracy CM, Woo YJ, Zhao DX, Anderson JL, Jacobs AK, […]
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Prehospital Delay Time in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
Summary Randomised, controlled, parallel-group multi-centre trial 2041 patients enrolled; 1944 had definitive diagnosis of ACS & documented prehospital delay in seeking help Intervention group (n=972) received standard care plus 40-min individualized education session using motivational techniques which was reinforced 1 month later by telephone Control group (n=972) received standard care On re-admission, delay (in seeking help) time was significantly […]
Management of cocaine-associated chest pain and myocardial infarction: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Acute Cardiac Care Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology
Click here to read full article for free Abstract The goals of the present article are to provide a critical review of the literature on cocaine-associated chest pain and myocardial infarction (MI) and to give guidance for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Classification of recommendations and levels of evidence are expressed in the American College of […]
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