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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 15, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(24):2957-2959; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm512
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Use of the electrocardiogram in optimizing reperfusion for ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a new role for an old tool?

Christos Kasapis1,*, and Brahmajee K. Nallamothu1,2

1 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2 VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 734 936 8214; fax: +1 734 615 3326.E-mail address: ckasapis@med.umich.edu

This editorial refers to ‘The electrocardiographic window of opportunity to treat vs. the different evolving stages of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: correlation with therapeutic approach, coronary anatomy and outcome in the DANAMI-2 trial’ by M.J. Eskola et al., on page 2985

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Rapidly obtaining an electrocardiogram (ECG) is the critical first step in the evaluation of patients with chest pain. For >25 years, the ECG has been used to detect those patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who are eligible for reperfusion therapy with either fibrinolytic therapy or primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1,2 The ECG also has been instrumental in identifying those patients at highest risk for complications following STEMI and who may gain the most benefit from reperfusion therapy, based on features such as infarct location, the sum of ST-elevations, and the presence of reciprocal ST-depression or arrhythmias.3

Once patients with STEMI are identified, the decision to administer reperfusion therapy should be made as rapidly as possible and, ideally, it should be delivered within 12 h . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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