Bookedited by Sameer Mehta.
Contents:
Part I. Guidelines, thrombolytic therapy, pharmacology
1. Compendium of STEMI clinical trials
2. European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology STEMI guidelines
3. The role of thrombolytic therapy in the era of STEMI interventions
4. Anticoagulants in STEMI interventions
5. New oral and intravenous adenosine diphosphate blockers in STEMI intervention
Part II. The STEMI procedure
6. The role of acute circulatory support in STEMI
7. Thrombus management for STEMI interventions
8. Transradial techniques to improve STEMI outcomes
9. Management of cardiogenic shock
10. Present role of thrombectomy in STEMI interventions
11. Choice of stent in STEMI interventions
12. Illustrated STEMI procedures I. Basic STEMI skills
13. Illustrated STEMI procedures II. Basic STEMI skills
14. Illustrated STEMI Procedures III. Basic STEMI skills
15. Remote ischemic conditioning for acute myocardial infarction
Part III. The STEMI process
16. Reducing door-to-balloon times
17. Pre-hospital triage and management
18. Creating networks for optimal STEMI management
19. Pharacoinvasive management of STEMI
Part IV. Global STEMI initiatives
20. Stent for life: the European perspective on STEMI interventions
21. Urban combined pharmacoinvasive managment of STEMI patients as antidote to traffic in large metropolitan cities
22. Lessons from the Puerto Rico Unfarction National Collaborative Experience Initiative
23. The STEMI Care Program in China
24. STEMI India
25. The role of telemedicine in STEMI interventions
26. Innovative telemedicine STEMI protocols
Part V. Future perspectives
27. STEMI interventions, beyond the culprit lesion
28. Promising technologies for STEMI interventions
Index.