The safety and feasibility of immediately returning patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention with ST-elevation myocardial infarction

EuroIntervention

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 599-603

  Matteau, Alexis ^a,b   Rinfret, Stéphane ^a,c   Dorais, Marc ^a   LeLorier, Jacques ^a,b   Reeves, François ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Epidemiology; Primary angioplasty; STEMI

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART REINFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; AGED; AMBULANCE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMBULANCES; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUEBEC; RECURRENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955477602     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV5I5A96     Document Type: Article

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