Acute Coronary Syndromes
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Blood Loss After Phlebotomy Linked to Anemia
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Post-MI Secondary Prevention Lacking in RA Patients
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'Late' PCI Still Common Though Guidelines Advise Against It
Major Finding: The rate of inappropriate "late" PCI has not declined since publication of the Occluded Artery Trial findings and the resulting...
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Quick Cooling With Therapeutic Hypothermia Improves Neurologic Outcomes in Certain Patients
Major Finding: Therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest patients – beginning in the field and completed in a hospital – was associated with good...
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Healthy Lifestyle Cuts Women's Sudden Cardiac Death Risk by 92%
Major Finding: Middle-age and older women who follow all four low-risk lifestyle factors – those who did not smoke, exercised regularly, had a...
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Ambulance Diversion Raises Risk of MI Mortality
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Rule Predicts Which ED Patients Need an Immediate ECG
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Rule Predicts Which ED Patients Need an Immediate ECG
Major Finding: In the validation cohort, this rule was 92.7% sensitive (95% confidence interval, 91.8-93.5), was 74% specific (CI, 74.0-74.1), had...
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Rules Identify Which Chest Pain Patients Can Be Sent Home
Major Finding: The North American Chest Pain Rule was 100% sensitive and 20.9% specific. The Vancouver Chest Pain Rule was 99.2% sensitive and 23....
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In-Hospital Mortality Risk Increases With DIDO Time for STEMI Patients
Major Finding: The recommended door-in to door-out time of 30 minutes or less was observed in only 11% of transferred STEMI patients requiring...
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Benefits of Perioperative Statins Borne Out in Trial
Major Finding: Perioperative statin use was associated with a significant reduction of perioperative cardiovascular events (HR, 0.55) and improved...