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 ...

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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An AI-enabled ECG identified patients with STEMI, the worst kind of heart ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

The Boise VA Medical Center held an Open House to celebrate the opening of the new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab), last week. The new Cardiac Cath Lab will allow the Boise VA Medical ...

For most resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, rushing to angiography was no help for subsequent survival and in fact produced numerically worse outcomes, the TOMAHAWK trial ...

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 ...

The Florida Institute for Angiography of Sarasota held a grand re-opening last month to celebrate the unveiling of its newly renovated Philips Azurion Cath Lab offers patients and physicians ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions has released an updated set of guidelines for infection control in cardiovascular catheterization laboratories. Release of these revised ...

An angiogram is a medical procedure of detecting blockage in the arterial system using a special contrast material and x-ray imaging system. An angiogram, also called coronary angiography, is a part ...