Stowens JC, Sonnad SS, Rosenbaum RA West J Emerg Med 2015 May;16(3):472-80 PMID: 25987932 Abstract INTRODUCTION: We sought to determine the potential reduction in door-to-balloon time (DTB) by allowing paramedics to perform prehospital ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) notification using brief communications via emergency medical services (EMS) 9-1-1 dispatchers as soon as they saw a STEMI
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Ehrenthal DB, Rogers S, Goldstein ND, Edwards DG, Weintraub WS J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2015 Jan;24(1):23-9 PMID: 25247261 Abstract OBJECTIVE: To identify differences in women’s cardiovascular risk, independent of obesity, one year after delivery of a pregnancy complicated by a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (HDP). METHODS: We compared traditional and novel cardiovascular risk factors of
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Zhang Z, Kolm P, Grau-Sepulveda MV, Ponirakis A, O’Brien SM, Klein LW, Shaw RE, McKay C, Shahian DM, Grover FL, Mayer JE, Garratt KN, Hlatky M, Edwards FH, Weintraub WS J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2015 Jan;65(1):1-11 PMID: 25572503 Abstract BACKGROUND: ASCERT (American College of Cardiology Foundation and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Collaboration on the
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Christiana Care physicians presented at the American College of Cardiology 2014, 63rd Annual Scientific Session and Expo, in Washington, D.C., March.
Levy Z, Satti S, Grillo A J Emerg Med 2014 Feb;46(2):e63-4 PMID: 24238591 Abstract