Door-to-needle times: Room for improvement and need for continuous audit.

Autor: Edwards, Colin C, White, Harvey D
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Zdroj: Emergency Medicine; Jun2000, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p91-94, 4p
Abstrakt: Discusses the logistics and management of acute myocardial infarction in Australia and New Zealand. Need for rapid, complete and sustained reperfusion of infarct-related artery; Delays in the administration of reperfusion therapy; Causes of treatment delays; Importance of establishing a chest pain unit; Necessity of continual data collection and audit of times to reperfusion therapy.
Databáze: Complementary Index