Cardiology Literature Update: A Quarter-Century of Classics (Plenary IV)

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM PT

Location: Grand III - 4th Floor

CE: 0.75 CME Credit

Speaker(s)

Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM (he/him/his)

Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Maryland
Edgewater, Maryland

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Session Moderator(s)

Harman S. Gill, MD FAAEM (he/him/his)

Director of Education and Academic Development
NYU - GLISOM
Mineola, New York

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Molly K. Estes, MD FAAEM FACEP (she/her/hers)

Clerkship Director, Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):

Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM: No financial relationships to disclose

I have reviewing and lecturing on the emergency cardiology literature for the past 25 years. During that time, there have been some very important advances in our knowledge and clinical practice based on the published literature, but there have also been some very thought-provoking studies that have not (yet?) been incorporated into our practice. During this lecture, I will discuss some of my favorite and most important, practice-changing emergency cardiology publications that we all should be aware of from the past quarter-century. Some of those articles I discuss will be well-known studies, and others will be critically-important articles that for one reason or another fell through the cracks.

Learning Objectives:

List recent advances in cardiac arrest during the past 25 years.
Describe the Sgarbossa criteria, as well as modifications, as they apply to patients with left bundle branch block and right ventricular pacers.
Discuss advances in the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with acute coronary syndrome.