The latest population-based studies in the medical literature worldwide indicate that acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients still experience prolonged delay to be rescued, which often results in morbidity and mortality. This paper reports from a technological standpoint a teleconsultation and monitoring system named AToMS. This system addresses the problem of prehospital delivery of thromb...

Previous studies have reported elevated serum soluble thrombomodulin (sTM) concentrations in acute pulmonary thromboembolism (APTE), but no study has evaluated the relationship between the serum sTM concentration and prognosis. In the present study we investigated the correlation between the serum sTM concentration on admission and the duration of oxygen supplementation in patients admitted to ...

AIMS The primary aim of this retrospective study was to determine the proportion of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) who fulfil the criteria of the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT) II and the implications of MADIT II criteria in practice. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of three hundred and ninety four admissions to the Coronary Care Unit (C...

OBJECTIVE To examine the management and outcome of an unselected consecutive series of patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to a tertiary referral centre. DESIGN A historical cohort study over a three year period (1992-94) of consecutive unselected admissions with acute myocardial infarction identified using the HIPE (hospital inpatient enquiry) database and validated according ...

The monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in hospitals aims to identify and quantify the risks associated with the use of drugs. The present study was performed to characterize the rate and the pattern of ADRs, due to cardiovascular drugs and anticoagulants, in a tertiary care teaching hospital. For this purpose, all the patients treated with cardiovascular drugs and anticoa...

The monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in hospitals aims to identify and quantify the risks associated with the use of drugs. The present study was performed to characterize the rate and the pattern of ADRs, due to cardiovascular drugs and anticoagulants, in a tertiary care teaching hospital. For this purpose, all the patients treated with cardiovascular drugs and anticoa...

Introduction Gemeprost is a prostaglandin E1 analogue and has been in use in our institutions to induce uterine contraction for termination of pregnancy and also for cervical dilatation for dilatation and curettage. We report the case of a 63year-old female presenting for curettage of the uterus who developed acute myocardial infarction 10 minutes after vaginal insertion of gemeprost. She was g...

Objectives: To determine the frequency of success thrombolysis using SK in patients STEMI, investigate association with NLR STEMI. Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out at Coronary Care Unit (CCU) Services Hospital, Lahore. The sample size 130 were enrolled by non-probability consecutive sampling. In this all male and female from 25 to 100 years age STEMI who given in...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Renal dysfunction is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The aim of this study was to investigate the independent prognostic value of renal dysfunction and its incremental predictability risk after adjusting for well-known clinical factors in patients with AMI. METHODS 751 consecutive patients with AMI adm...