A rapid-response alphanumeric paging design decreases door-to-balloon times in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation acute myocardial infarction

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-153

  Goyal, Neil K ^a   Giglio, James ^a   Lorberbaum, Miriam ^b   Hurley, Eileen ^a   Stant, Jennifer ^a   Esposito, Francesca ^a   Sciacca, Robert ^a   Apfelbaum, Mark ^a   Rabbani, LeRoy E ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Door to balloon time; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOOR TO BALLOON TIME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID RESPONSE ALPHANUMERIC PAGING DESIGN; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TIME;

EID: 4644362979     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hpc.0000139463.57231.9f     Document Type: Article

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