The Plainview Hospital has now treated 100 ST-elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, patients through its new cardiac catheterization laboratory. The hospital held a celebration on May 12 to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not all centers have catheterization laboratories to treat patients with STEMI, so those centers need to have a ...

“Time is heart, and time is brain,” said President and Chief Administrative Officer of Cumberland Medical Center Randy Davis. In early February, the Cumberland Medical Center revealed the newly ...

On Monday, July 29, Loudonville resident and University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center employee Catherine White came to the hospital with chest and back pain − she had never experienced anything ...

Over the last decade, speeding up treatment for patients who experience a heart attack in outpatient settings has improved significantly, but those efforts have ignored improving treatment for ...

Prehospital activation of the cardiac cath lab not only has a positive impact on performance measures, but also significantly improves both short- and long-term survival, according to new data from ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Richmond University Medical Center is celebrating a speed record for delivering life-saving treatment to a patient with the most urgent type of heart attack. RUMC’s ST Elevation ...

Local health systems are investing heavily in cardiac catheterization laboratories as heart failures are expected to balloon in the coming years. According to the American Heart Association, as of ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that mines ECG data and alerts the primary PCI team to activate the cath lab can reduce STEMI patients’ arrival times by as much as 10 minutes, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adjusted 30-day and 1-year mortality rates after MI were higher for older low-income vs. higher-income patients.