Paramedic contact to balloon in less than 90 minutes: A successful strategy for st-segment elevation myocardial infarction bypass to primary percutaneous coronary intervention in a Canadian emergency medical system

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 490-498

  Cheskes, Sheldon ^a,b   Turner, Linda ^a   Foggett, Ruth ^c   Huiskamp, Maud ^a   Popov, Dean ^d   Thomson, Sue ^a   Sage, Greg ^d   Watson, Randy ^c   Verbeek, Richard ^a,e  

^a Sunnybrook Osler Centre For Prehospital Care   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Trillium Health Centre Missassauga   (Canada)

^d Halton Region Emergency Medical Services   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balloon; Bypass; Emergency medical services; Myocardial infarction; Reperfusion; STEMI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARD; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ONTARIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052293613     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2011.598613     Document Type: Article

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