Implementation of specialty centers for patients with st-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 215-222

  Eckstein, Marc ^a,b   Koenig, William ^c   Kaji, Amy ^d   Tadeo, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Fire Department   (United States)

^c Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency   (United States)

^d HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon; Catheterization; Myocardial infarction; Reperfusion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL DISCIPLINES; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; DATA BASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNITED STATES;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350648838     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120802471980     Document Type: Article

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