Impact of the prehospital activation strategy in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous revascularization: A single center community hospital experience

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 186-192

  Horvath, Sofia A ^a   Xu, Ke ^b   Nwanyanwu, Francis ^a   Chan, Richard ^a   Correa, Luis ^a   Nass, Nouri ^a   Jaraki, Abdul Rahman ^a   Jurkovich, David ^a   Kennedy, Richard ^a   Andrzejewski, Lee ^a   Vignola, Paul A ^a   Cubeddu, Roberto J ^a  

^a Aventura Hospital and Medical Center   (United States)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREHOSPITAL ACTIVATION STRATEGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870454981     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3182647df7     Document Type: Article

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