The use of the one heparin dosing algorithm for all patients receiving ... resulted in 100% excess dosing on the ACTION metric for STEMI patients due to the substantially lower limits set for ...

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 ...

The diagnosis of unstable angina and non-STEMI is primarily ... data and current guidelines, the choice of anticoagulant differs between early invasive and ischemia-guided management strategies.

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 ...