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Although we often talk about "prehospital activation" of the cath lab for STEMI, it isn't always clear what we're talking ...

Can IM epinephrine, at the proper dose, cause an MI? A lot of paramedics worry about this, and, as a result, under-treat anaphylaxis. This i...

  In the first half of this post I emphasized a few points about AF. It can be triggered by a variety of non-cardiac sources - hypovolemia...

Some cardiac arrhythmias are exciting and fun for the prehospital provider. Ventricular fibrillation has, essentially, only one proven the...

A recent study suggests that a computer interpretation of the ECG can be extremely specific for diagnosing a STEMI; i.e. if the computer rea...

The American Heart Association has been using the phrase "chain of survival for years now. This imagery is used to emphasize the import...

So what do you do when your STEMI disappears?  Spontaneous reperfusion (SR) is well-described in the cardiology literature. One moment you...