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 ...

Although very early mortality (first few days) is lower for NSTEMI than for STEMI, over a longer period (6 months) their risk of death is comparable.1 The recently published NICE clinical guideline on ...

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 ...

Recall the 2011 European Society of Cardiology guidelines ... invasive management.6 Ischaemic events continue to occur over time after NSTE-ACS, possibly because patients with NSTE-ACS are older and ...

Overall in acute management of patients with NSTEMI and STEMI, documentation indicated that only two ... Registry-Get With the Guidelines database obtained from US hospitals showed no significant ...

The crew’s initial treatment is consistent with the consideration of a NSTEMI. The patient presented a 12-lead EKG that was not suggestive for ischemia, but displayed clinical signs of an acute ...

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.

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 ...