Key themes in reducing door-to-balloon times in patients with STEMI
Pippa Murdie
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Recommendations have been published on the speed with which patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) should undergo percutaneous coronary intervention following arrival at hospital ('door-to-balloon time'), as have guidelines on how to achieve such targets. Less than half of patients, however, are treated within the recommended time period. Bradley and coauthors in the US have reported on 11 hospitals that managed to achieve markedly improved performance and door-to-balloon times from 1999 to 2002, and identified several key approaches that could be applied by other less successful institutions.
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