Most heart-attack patients needing procedure at another hospital not transferred in recommended time
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Only about 10 percent of patients with a certain type of heart attack who need to be transferred to another hospital for a PCI (procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) are transferred within the recommended time of 30 minutes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA.