Keys to Achieving Target First Medical Contact to Balloon Times and Bypassing Emergency Department More Important Than Distance.
Saad M EzadAllan J DaviesHooria CheemaTrent WilliamsJames LeitchPublished in: Cardiology research and practice (2018)
Patients who do not bypass the ED have a longer FMCTB across all spectrum of distances from the PCI centre; therefore, bypassing the ED is key to achieving target FMCTB times. Using a cutoff distance of 50 km may reduce human error in estimating travel time to our PCI centre and thereby identifying patients who should receive prehospital thrombolysis.
Keyphrases
- emergency department
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- acute myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- endothelial cells
- antiplatelet therapy
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- pulmonary embolism
- atrial fibrillation
- cardiac arrest
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- acute ischemic stroke
- pluripotent stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- left ventricular
- infectious diseases