Pre-hospital organization: The first links in the chain of survival for heart attack patients

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 04:42 in Health & Medicine

Barcelona, Spain, 1 September: Mortality rate following a heart attack has fallen by more than 50% in Europe over the past 25 years. However, because only minor advances in the medical treatment of AMI are expected over the next decade, it is through organisational changes in the pre-hospital phase that mortality rate will continue this decline to below 5%.

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