Improvement in Care and Outcomes for Emergency Medical Service–Transported Patients With ST‐Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) With and Without Prehospital Cardiac Arrest: A Mission: Lifeline STEMI Accelerator Study

Improvement in Care and Outcomes for Emergency Medical Service–Transported Patients With ST‐Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) With and Without Prehospital Cardiac Arrest: A Mission: Lifeline STEMI Accelerator Study

BackgroundPatients with ST‐elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) may benefit from direct transport to a percutaneous cardiac intervention (PCI) hospital but have previously been less likely to bypass local non‐PCI hospitals to go to a PCI center. Methods...

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Main Authors: Kristian Kragholm, Di Lu, Karen Chiswell, Hussein R. Al‐Khalidi, Mayme L. Roettig, Matthew Roe, James Jollis, Christopher B. Granger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
acute coronary syndrome
cardiac arrest
percutaneous coronary intervention
quality of care
systems of care
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.005717

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