Transport time and care processes for patients transferred with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: The reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction in carolina emergency rooms experience

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-562

  Muñoz, Daniel ^a   Roettig, Mayme L ^a   Monk, Lisa ^a   Al Khalidi, Hussein ^a   Jollis, James G ^a   Granger, Christopher B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; door to device time; fibrinolysis; primary coronary intervention; transfer

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TIME;

AIR AMBULANCES; AMBULANCES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT TRANSFER; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84868619332     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.968461     Document Type: Article

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