Public Access Defibrillation
Public Access Defibrillation Joseph P. Ornato Introduction Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) results in the death of 400,000 to 460,000 Americans each year in the United States (1). Although the…
Regional Transfer Programs for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Regional Transfer Programs for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention David M. Larson Timothy D. Henry Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the preferred reperfusion strategy in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction…
Prehospital Fibrinolysis
Prehospital Fibrinolysis Freek W. A. Verheugt Introduction Reperfusion therapy for ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes aims at early and complete recanalization of the infarct-related artery to salvage myocardium and improve both…
Goals, Design, and Implementation of Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine
Goals, Design, and Implementation of Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine Christopher P. Cannon Patrick T. O’Gara With the numerous advances in all areas of medical science, the practice of medicine…
Acquired Cardiac Disease
Acquired Cardiac Disease Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Patients with acquired heart disease can present with classic clinical syndromes, such as angina and…
Thoracic Interventional Techniques
Thoracic Interventional Techniques Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy Image-guided percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy (PTNB) of the lung is an important procedure in the diagnosis of thoracic and extrathoracic malignancies. It is…
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Advances in the treatment of congenital heart disease over the past five decades have led to significant growth in the number of surviving patients. Accurate statistics…
The Thoracic Aorta
The Thoracic Aorta Many articles and books have been written about the aorta. However, there is still confusion regarding the aorta and aortic diseases among radiologists. Specifically, confusion exists regarding…
Radiology of the Pleura
Radiology of the Pleura Evaluation of the pleura is in several important ways the evil twin of evaluation of the mediastinum. Whereas plain film assessment of the mediastinum is extremely…
Diffuse Lung Disease
Diffuse Lung Disease Imaging has a number of important goals in the patient with diffuse lung disease: Differential diagnosis; Specific diagnosis, if possible; Delineation of extent of disease—may influence choice…
