Importance of hospital entry: Walk-in stemi and primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-87

  Bansal, Eric ^a   Dhawan, Rahul ^a   Wagman, Brittany ^b   Low, Garren ^b   Zheng, Ling ^c   Chan, Linda ^b   Newton, Kim ^c   Swadron, Stuart P ^c   Testa, Nicholas ^c   Shavelle, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Door to balloon time; Primary PCI

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RATE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; AMBULANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AMBULANCES; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896709603     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.9.17855     Document Type: Article

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