Tag: Myocardial Infarction

TOMAHAWK

5 September 2021 George Walker Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Angiography after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation Desch S et al. NEJM 2021. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2101909 Clinical Question In adults > 30 years old suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) without ST elevation on their ECG does routine immediate coronary angiography compared to a delayed or selective approach to coronary angiography improve 30-day all-cause mortality? Background The DISCO pilot study showed […]

After 80 study

15 April 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 3 comments

In patients aged 80 years or older, with unstable angina/non-ST elevation myocardial infaction (NSTEMI), does an early invasive strategy compared with a conservative strategy, reduce the composite outcome of myocardial infarction, need for urgent revascularisation, stroke and death?