Intensive Management of Hyperglycemia in Acute Coronary Syndrome Vera T. Fajtova The connection between diabetes and macrovascular disease is well established. In 1931 Cruikshank noted an unusually high incidence of…
Acute Aortic Syndromes Piotr Sobieszczyk Patrick T. O’Gara Nontraumatic acute aortic syndromes (AAS) comprise a group of diagnostically elusive and highly lethal, albeit relatively uncommon, disorders. Aortic dissection (AD), aortic…
Approach to the Patient with Complicated Myocardial Infarction Richard C. Becker Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are best defined as atherothrombotic disorders of the coronary arterial system. Although the underlying pathoanatomic…
Pathways for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Rashid M. Ahmad Frances Wadlington Tiffany Street James P. Greelish Jorge M. Balaguer John G. Byrne The development of “critical pathways” in coronary artery…
Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Christopher P. Cannon Patrick T. O’Gara Coronary arteriography, the “gold standard” for identifying the presence or absence of stenoses caused by coronary artery disease…
Primary PCI at Community Hospitals without On-site Cardiac Surgery Nancy Sinclair Thomas P. Wharton Jr Rationale for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at Hospitals Without Cardiac Surgery Primary percutaneous coronary intervention…
Primary PCI Amr E. Abbas Cindy L. Grines Since the release of the first edition of Critical Pathways a tremendous amount of data has been published on primary percutaneous intervention…
Critical Pathways Following Thrombolysis Christopher P. Cannon Patrick T. O’Gara The use of fibrinolytic therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) has dramatically reduced mortality (1). As discussed in…
The Role of Exercise Testing in Chest Pain Units: Evolution, Application, Results Ezra A. Amsterdam J. Douglas Kirk Deborah B. Diercks William R. Lewis Samuel D. Turnipseed Despite advances in…
Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack Abdul Abdullah Lee H. Schwamm Clinical Diagnosis of Stroke and TIA Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. It…
