The failure of years of experience with electrocardiographic transmission from paramedics to the hospital emergency department to reduce the delay from door to primary coronary intervention below the 90-minute threshold during acute myocardial infarction

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 136-141

  Vaught, Creighton ^a   Young, Dwayne R ^c   Bell, Samuel J ^a   Maynard, Charles ^b   Gentry, Michael ^a   Jacubowitz, Samuel ^d   Leibrandt, Paul N ^a   Munsey, Denise ^d   Savona, Michael R ^a   Wall, Thomas C ^e   Wagner, Galen S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Guilford County Schools   (United States)

^d MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e LeBauer Healthcare ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Electrocardiographic transmission; Emergency department; Paramedic; Prehospital care; Primary coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORTH CAROLINA; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645383801     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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