The role of the emergency services in the optimisation of primary angioplasty: Experience from London and the Heart Attack Team

EuroIntervention

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 517-523

  Dalby, Miles ^a   Whitbread, Mark ^b  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ANGIOPLASTY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GEOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANGIOPLASTY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LONDON; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION;

EID: 84883421856     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV9I4A83     Document Type: Review

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