Transferring doctors to heart attack patients improves outcomes, study suggests
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Transporting a specialist to a patient having a severe heart attack can reduce delays in the patient receiving primary angioplasty, compared with transferring the patient to a specialist. Of patients in the specialist-transfer group, 21 percent received angioplasty within the recommended 90 minutes vs. 7.7 percent of patients in the patient-transfer group.