door to electrocardiography (ecg) and needle times in patients with myocardial infarction

Door to Electrocardiography (ECG) and Needle Times in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Dear editor: cute myocardial infarction is one of the most prevalent causes of hospitalization in emergency department. In United States 650,000 patients annually suffer from acute myocardial infarction and in Iran ischemic heart diseases are considered as the second cause of mortality in population of 15-49 years (1). Taking thrombolytic drugs leads to 40-50% decrease in mortality rate of such...

Improving door-to-needle times for patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction at a rural district general hospital

Acute coronary syndrome is a common condition with a major global impact on healthcare resources and expenditure. International guidelines are clear in specifying that patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) should receive urgent coronary reperfusion with either primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or thrombolysis. Although PCI is the gold standard in the trea...

Improving door to needle times with nurse initiated thrombolysis.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of nurse initiated thrombolysis on door to needle time (the interval between arriving at the hospital and starting thrombolytic treatment) in patients with acute myocardial infarction. DESIGN Comparison of door to needle times before and after the employment of nurses trained and approved to initiate thrombolysis without prescription by a doctor but with a pro...

effective factors in door-to-needle time for streptokinase administration in patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted to the emergency department

conclusions the door-to-needle (dtn) time, in a standard setting, is recommended to be less than 30 minutes. according to the results of this study, the dtn time is comparatively two times longer in females and afternoon and night shifts. different variables including emergency staff, physicians, patients’ characteristics, and environmental/physical factors induced this difference. results in t...

Sex differences in door to electrocardiogram and balloon times in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction.

Door-to-balloon and door-to-needle time for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the U.S.

n a recent thought-provoking commentary, Terkelsen et al. (1) rom Denmark recommended that the committee responsible for urther updates to the American College of Cardiology/American eart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines for ST-segment eleation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and the D2B (Door-toalloon) Alliance shift focus toward initiates that would reduce ystem delay in primary percutaneous co...