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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Srihari S. Naidu, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, director of the cath lab at Westchester Medical Center, professor of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CALORI study calls into question the practice of fasting before cardiac catheterization. Patients not ...

Holding patients NPO before cardiac catheterization procedures was not safer but did come with costs, a randomized trial showed. No restrictions on oral intake didn't increase the risk of the primary ...

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, ...

No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Heparin started in the ambulance or emergency department (ED) makes it more likely a patient with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) will present to the cath lab without a ...

Your heart already has its own built-in bypass system that predicts whether the heart muscle is alive or dead—according to ...

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 ...