Dr Amal Mattu breaks down the key updates — and lingering pitfalls — in the 2025 ACS guidelines that every acute care ...

Lucknow: To improve emergency heart care in semi-urban and rural areas, the state govt has launched the UP STEMI Care Program ...

Physicians also may benefit by reviewing published guidelines outlining modern criteria for ECG interpretation in athletes. 3–5 In addition, an international group of experts convened in Seattle in ...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and unstable angina (UA) are part of a spectrum of clinical disease collectively identified as acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The pathophysiology common to this ...

Background: A wrist-worn wearable device for acquiring limb and chest ECG leads (wECG) may constitute a promising approach to detection of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, it remains to be ...

The experimental results showed that our method performed ECG signal reconstruction with a correlation coefficient of 0.86 between the reconstructed and actual ECG signals, even without attaching ...

The timely treatment of STEMI varies substantially at the hospital level, for both primary presentation and transfers, and worse outcomes were observed in patients when the first medical contact (FMC) ...

Background The appropriate management of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) depends on accurate interpretation of the 12-lead ECG by paramedics. Computer interpretation ...

Frontal lead aVR (−150°) is often neglected in ECG interpretation, with clinicians effectively using an “11 lead” ECG. 2 We hypothesised that display of lead aVR in inverted format (−aVR +30°), ...

These aren’t just targets for AMR — they’re the baseline. EMS personnel follow advanced protocols that include early ECG acquisition, STEMI alert activation from the field, and timely medication ...

Terkelsen et al imply that the guidelines have distorted the evidence, particularly with respect to acceptable delays in delivering percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), in order to favour ...