This study is reminiscent of a 2009 publication by Jayroe and colleagues [1] in which researchers asked 15 experienced cardiologists to interpret 116 ECGs for evidence of STEMI. In that study, only 8 ...

Utah health system Intermountain Healthcare -- and other, as yet unknown providers -- appear to be investigating AliveCor's smartphone ECG device in a clinical context, to determine whether the iPhone ...

Integrating the reverse Aslanger pattern with Littmann’s continuity, the patient was diagnosed with a high lateral, high-risk, occlusive myocardial infarction. The patient immediately received dual ...

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 ...

A newly developed smartphone app has shown promise for determining if a person is suffering from a serious heart attack. A study into the app's accuracy revealed it was almost as effective as a ...

Patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) who receive an electrocardiogram (ECG) prior to arriving at the hospital have lower 30-day mortality compared with those who do not, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Delayed presentation of 24 hours or more after non-STEMI symptom onset was associated with greater risk for ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns ...

Patients with non-STEMI who receive second-generation stents that elute everolimus have less restenosis and clinically driven target vessel revascularization (TVR) compared with those receiving ...

I was involved in a malpractice case a couple of years ago as a consultant. The case involved an emergency physician who was being sued for failure to make a rapid diagnosis of an ST-segment elevation ...