Disclosure: Ali A. Sovari, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships in addition to his employment. Disclosure: Marilyn A. Prasun, RN, PhD, has disclosed no relevant financial ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Electrocardiogram ST segment elevation' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with ...

Background: Baseline Q waves may provide additional value compared with time from the onset of symptoms in predicting outcomes for patients with ST-segment elevation. We evaluated whether baseline Q ...

Pericarditis, or inflammation of the pericardium, has typical ECG findings. These findings occur in progressive stages, all of which are seen in about 50% of cases of pericarditis. Stage I (acute ...

The most serious form of the acute coronary syndrome, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, most often results from complete thrombotic occlusion of a major epicardial coronary artery.

See related research article by Siha and colleagues on page 1135 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.111683 One could imagine a scenario in which attention to ...

When reading the ECG of a patient presenting with cardiopulmonary complaints, the most important duty of acute care clinicians is to determine whether there is evidence of an acute coronary occlusion ...

Discover how machine learning models are revolutionizing the diagnosis of occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) in patients with acute chest pain. Machine learning models surpass clinicians and ...

Sooner was not better when using ECG to determine candidates for urgent coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to the PEACE study from Europe. The earlier the ECG ...