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WednesdayHeart Attack Patients Do Better at Hospitals Specializing in Angioplasty - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
Practice, repetition, and a commitment to primary angioplasty can shave life-saving minutes off the time to coronary revascularization for patients with an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Patients who underwent angioplasty at hospitals specializing in percutaneous revascularization had significantly shorter door-to-balloon times (P<0.001) and a significantly lower risk of in-hospital mortality (P=0.006) than patients treated at hospitals that treat heart attacks with angioplasty or thrombolytics. Those findings, published in the Jan. 17 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart AssociationCLICK TO READ MORE |
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