Low risk of intracranial emergency in patients with minor head injury treated with antiplatelet therapy.

2021

002 Impact of diverting general practitioner's after-hours calls to emergency medical dispatch centers on time delays and acute revascularization pro…

2012

Jean Ferrieres [Orateur] (1), Guy Berkenboom (2), Zdenek Coufal (3), Stefan James (4), Attila MohaCsi (5), Gregory Pavlides (6), Kirsi Norrbacka (7), Magali Sartral (8), Marie-Ange Paget (8), Molly Tomlin (9), Uwe Zeymer (10) (1) CHU Rangueil, Cardiologie B, Toulouse, France – (2) ULB Erasme University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Brussels, Belgium – (3) Batova Krajska Nemocnice Zlin, Department of Cardiology, Zlin, Republique Tcheque – (4) Uppsala University Hospital, Dept. of Cardiology and Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala, Suede – (5) Gottsegen Institute of Hungarian Cardiology, Budapest, Hungaria – (6) Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Kallithea, Grece – (7) Lilly Research…

Type 1 or Type 2 Myocardial Infarction in Patients with a History of Coronary Artery Disease: Data from the Emergency Department

2019

A type 2 myocardial infarction (T2MI) is the result of an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand, without acute atherothrombosis. T2MI is frequent in emergency departments (ED), but has not been extensively evaluated in patients with previously known coronary artery disease (CAD). Our study assessed the incidence and characteristics of T2MI compared to type 1 (T1MI) in CAD patients admitted to an ED. Among 33,669 consecutive patients admitted to the ED, 2830 patients with T1MI or T2MI were systematically included after prospective adjudication by the attending clinician according to the universal definition. Among them, 619 (22%) patients had a history of CAD. Using multivariable analys…