Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Off-Site Cardiac Surgery Backup for Acute Myocardial Infarction as a Strategy to Reduce Door-to-Balloon Time

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1353-1358

  Peels, Hans O ^a   de Swart, Hans ^a   Ploeg, Tjeerd v d ^a   Hautvast, Raymond W ^a   Cornel, Jan H ^a   Arnold, Alf E ^a   Wharton, Thomas P ^b   Umans, Victor A ^a  

^a Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^b Exeter Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT TRANSFER; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE;

EID: 35348911411     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.06.022     Document Type: Article

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