Interventions. Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the
American College of Cardiology (www. cardiosource. org), the American Heart Association …

2009 Focused Updates: ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation
Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2004 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through …

Point-of-care (POC) assays are available for a variety of coagulation tests. These assays are
generally simple to perform and have a more rapid turnaround time than their central …

The standing guideline writing committee along with the parent Task Force identified trials
and other key data through October 2011 that may impact guideline recommendations. On …

Description: A multidisciplinary group of 34 experts from 15 countries developed this update
and expansion of the recommendations on the management of acute nonvariceal upper …

Background Gastrointestinal complications are an important problem of antithrombotic
therapy. Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are believed to decrease the risk of such …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the …

Peptic ulcer disease had a tremendous effect on morbidity and mortality until the last
decades of the 20th century, when epidemiological trends started to point to an impressive …

Late-breaking clinical trials presented at the 2008 and 2009 annual scientific meetings of the
ACC, AHA, and European Society of Cardiology, as well as selected other data through April …