Use of an air ambulance system improves time to treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 45-50

  Hata, Noritake ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuaki ^a   Imaizumi, Takahiro ^a   Yokoyama, Shinya ^a   Shinada, Takuro ^a   Tanabe, Jun ^a   Shiiba, Kunito ^a   Suzuki, Yuichirou ^a   Matsumoto, Hisashi ^a   Mashiko, Kunihiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air ambulance; Coronary intervention; Helicopter; Myocardial infarction; Prehospital delay

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AMBULANCE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; TIME;

AGED; AIR AMBULANCES; AMBULANCES; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33344463621     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1399     Document Type: Article

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