Benefit of direct ambulance to coronary care unit admission of acute myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary percutanoues intervention

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-358

  Amit, Guy ^a   Cafri, Carlos ^a   Gilutz, Harel ^a   Ilia, Reuben ^a   Zahger, Doron ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ambulance; Direct admission; Door to balloon time; Primary percutanoues coronary intervention; ST segment elevation myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BALLOON; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AMBULANCES; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CARE UNITS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250337419     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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