Manual of STEMI Interventions

List of Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Part I Guidelines, Thrombolytic Therapy, Pharmacology 1

1 Compendium of STEMI Clinical Trials 3
Juanita Gonzalez Arango MD, Miguel Vega Arango MD, Estefania Calle Botero MD, Isaac Yepes Moreno MD, Maria Botero Urrea MD, Alicia Henao Velasquez MD, Daniel Rodriguez MD, Daniela Parra Dunoyer MD, Maria Teresa Bedoya Reina MD, Sameer Mehta MD

2 European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology STEMI Guidelines 35
Estefania Oliveros MD, Sameer Mehta MD FACC, Alexandra Ferre MD, Tracy Zhang BS, Michael Schweitzer MD, Miguel Vega Arango MD, Juanita Gonzalez Arango MD, Maria Botero Urrea MD, Maria Teresa Bedoya Reina MD, Isaac Yepes MD

3 The Role of Thrombolytic Therapy in the Era of STEMI Interventions 55
Nestor Mercado MD, Theodore L. Schreiber MD, Cindy L. Grines MD

4 Anticoagulants in STEMI Interventions 65
Vincenzo Vizzi MD, Thomas W. Johnson BSc MBBS MD FRCP, Andreas Baumbach MD

5 New Oral and Intravenous Adenosine Diphosphate Blockers in STEMI Intervention 75
James J. Ferguson III MD

Part II The STEMI Procedure 105

6 The Role of Acute Circulatory Support in STEMI 107
Yousef Bader MD, Navin K. Kapur MD

7 Thrombus Management for STEMI Interventions 119
Sameer Mehta MD, Olga Reynbakh MD, Daniel Rodriguez MD, Tracy Zhang BS, Michael Schweitzer MD, Maria Teresa Bedoya Reina MD, Miguel Vega Arango MD, Juanita Gonzalez Arango MD, Maria Botero Urrea MD

8 Transradial Techniques to Improve STEMI Outcomes 145
Tejas Patel MD DM FACC FESC FSCAI, Sanjay Shah MD DM, Samir Pancholy MD FACC FSCAI

9 Management of Cardiogenic Shock 159
Holger Thiele MD, Suzanne de Waha MD

10 Present Role of Thrombectomy in STEMI Interventions 171
Francesco Giannini MD, Azeem Latib MD, Antonio Colombo MD

11 Choice of Stent in STEMI Interventions 187
Roopa Salwan MD

12 Illustrated STEMI Procedures I - Basic STEMI Skills 207
Sameer Mehta MD, Tracy Zhang BS, Michael Schweitzer MD, Alexandra Ferre MD, Daniella Nacad MD, Landy Luna Diaz MD, Alicia Henao Velasquez MD

13 Illustrated STEMI Procedures II - Basic STEMI Skills 223
Sameer Mehta MD, Tracy Zhang BS, Michael Schweitzer MD, Alexandra Ferre MD, Daniella Nacad MD, Landy Luna Diaz MD, Alicia Henao Velasquez MD

14 Illustrated STEMI Procedures III - Basic STEMI Skills 239
Sameer Mehta MD, Tracy Zhang BS, Michael Schweitzer MD, Alexandra Ferre MD, Daniella Nacad MD, Landy Luna Diaz MD, Alicia Henao Velasquez MD

15 Remote Ischemic Conditioning for Acute Myocardial Infarction 255
Hans Erik Botker MD PhD FACC FESC, Gerd Heusch MD FACC FESC FRCP

Part III The STEMI Process 273

16 Reducing Door-to-Balloon Times 275
Michel Le May MD, Joshua PY Loh MD

17 Pre-hospital Triage and Management 285
Ivan Rokos MD

18 Creating Networks for Optimal STEMI Management 299
David C. Lange MD, David M. Larson MD, David Hildebrandt RN, Timothy D. Henry MD

19 Pharmacoinvasive Management of STEMI 315
Neeraj Bhalla MD

Part IV Global STEMI Initiatives 325

20 Stent for Life: The European Perspective on STEMI Interventions 327
Sasko Kedev MD PhD FESC FACC

21 Urban Combined Pharmacoinvasive Management of STEMI Patients as Antidote to Traffic in Large Metropolitan Cities 333
David G. Iosseliani MD FACC FESC

22 Lessons from the Puerto Rico Infarction National Collaborative Experience Initiative 343
Orlando Rodriguez-Vila MD MMS FACC FSCAI, Jose Escabi-Mendoza MD FACC, Fernando Lapetina-Irizarry MD FACC, Miguel A. Campos-Esteve MD FACC

23 The STEMI Care Program in China 357
Yan Zhang MD, Yong Huo MD

24 STEMI INDIA 363
Thomas Alexander MD, Ajit S Mullasari MD

25 The Role of Telemedicine in STEMI Interventions 371
Roberto Vieira Botelho MD PhD, Sameer Mehta MD FACC MBA, Julius Cezar Q. Ladeira DDS MSc, Francisco Fernandez MBA, Marcio Sanches MD, Denis Fabiano de Souza RN, Wladimir Fernandes de Rezende MBA, Carlos Otavio Lara Pinheiro BSc

26 Innovative Telemedicine STEMI Protocols 379
Sameer Mehta MD FACC MBA, Roberto Vieira Botelho MD PhD, Freddy Bojanini MD, Juan Corral MD, Marco Perin MD, Maria Teresa Bedoya Reina MD, Juliana Giraldo MD, Laura Alvarez MD, Cindy Manotas MD, Sebastian Moreno MD, Sergio Reyes MD, Maria Botero Urrea MD

Part V Future Perspectives 395

27 STEMI Interventions, Beyond the Culprit Lesion 397
Neil Ruparelia PhD MRCP, Antonio Colombo MD, Azeem Latib MD

28 Promising Technologies for STEMI Interventions 409
Joshua PY Loh MD, HC Tan

Index 421