Pre-SMACC mini RAGE
Currently the RAGE Podcast site is recovering from a cold, so here are the show notes for the pre-SMACC mini […]
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Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
The latest AHA/ACC guidelines on NSTEACS have been published ahead of print in Circulation. Full text is available, and the […]
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Double balloon pump fail
Two recent trials question the ongoing use of intra-aortic balloon pumps: in patients with acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock […]
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New STEMI guidelines
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention or fibrinolysis for STEMI? What if you don’t have PCI at your hospital? The new 2013 […]
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Enoxaparin beats heparin for PCI
This is of interest to those of us in retrieval medicine, for logistic reasons: an infusion of heparin can be […]
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Potassium levels and AMI death
An association is demonstrated between abnormal (both high and low) serum potassium levels and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute […]
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AMI mortality increased as the number of risk factors declined
An interesting finding: in patients with myocardial infarction, hospital mortality increased consistently as the number of risk factors declined. There […]
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Nitric oxide for right ventricular cardiogenic shock
A case report describes a patient with right ventricular cardiogenic shock due to a dissected right coronary artery1. There was […]
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What do I do with a high sensitivity troponin?
Newer high-sensitivity troponin tests can be positive in patients who would have negative tests with the ‘traditional’ assay, which can […]
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Erythropoietin for STEMI
In STEMI patients, intravenous erythropoietin within 4 hours of PCI did not reduce infarct size and was associated with higher […]