Patients fare just as well if their nonemergency angioplasty is performed at hospitals
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 16:33
in Health & Medicine
Hospitals that do not have cardiac surgery capability can perform nonemergency angioplasty and stent implantation as safely as hospitals that do offer cardiac surgery. That is the finding of the nation's first large, randomized study to assess whether patients do just as well having nonemergency angioplasty performed at smaller, community hospitals that do not offer cardiac surgery.