Is There Any Time Left for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention According to the 2007 Updated American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Guidelines and the D2B Alliance?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1211-1215

  Terkelsen, Christian J ^a   Sørensen, Jacob T ^a   Nielsen, Torsten T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

fibrinolysis; guidelines; myocardial infarction; percutaneous coronary intervention related delay; primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

BALLOON; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; EMERGENCY CARE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION HEART INFARCTION; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53149092119     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.05.061     Document Type: Review

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