When I recommend that a patient needs coronary angiography (synonyms: heart catheterization,coronary angiogram, cardiac catheterization, or simply “cath”) I take a moment to bring up the risks of the ...

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

Interventionalists don’t often order a CXR ahead of time, but when it’s already been done, some find the added info useful.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Performing an emergency vs. delayed coronary angiogram after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without ST segment ...

For most resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, rushing to angiography was no help for subsequent survival and in fact produced numerically worse outcomes, the TOMAHAWK trial ...

For more than a decade, there's been uncertainty regarding whether post–cardiac arrest patients should be sent for immediate coronary angiography or not. The 2013 American College of Cardiology and ...

Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released an expert consensus statement providing cardiologists, cath lab directors, and hospital leadership guidance for ...