have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a higher risk of long-term mortality, Mark Chan and colleagues report. Current data on the difference in ...
For patients with either NSTEMI or STEMI, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines recommend that intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) be dosed by weight ...
The heparin standing orders for this site resulted in 100% excess dosing on the ACTION metric for STEMI patients due to the substantially lower limits set for excess dosing (60 U/kg bolus maximum ...
The largest trial to examine the impact of colchicine in acute myocardial infarction (MI) found that both acute and long-term colchicine use did not reduce cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, ...