An ST depression is a possible outcome of an electrocardiogram (ECG) test. It can indicate health conditions such as hypokalemia, myocardial ischemia, or a side effect of medications. Doctors may ...

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 ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; Sharen Lee, Gary Tse, Xin Wang, Adrian Baranchuk and Tong Liu from Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology, Hong Kong, China, ...

Impairment of microvascular integrity and myocardial perfusion occur in a large number of patients despite swift reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The collective assessment of ...

Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...

Routine use of early angiography and, if needed, reperfusion in patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is standard of care for those with ST-segment elevation. But whether the same ...

Dr. Yuefan Chen (Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine): A 59-year-old woman had hypotension and electrocardiographic (ECG) ST-segment abnormalities after the administration of anesthetic ...

Answer: B. Hyperkalemia causing the Brugada electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern. In leads V1-2, the ST segment is elevated, which begins from the top of the R' wave and is downsloping, ending with an ...

ST-segment elevation on the EKG in COVID-19 patients was especially complex and had poor prognosis in a small case series from New York City hospitals. Confirmed COVID-19 was complicated by ST-segment ...

Despite current treatments, patients who have acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation have high rates of major vascular events. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of the antiplatelet ...

About The Study: In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, treatment with prehospital pulse-dose glucocorticoid did not reduce final infarct size after 3 months. However, the trial ...