Health care system delay may increase risk of death for heart patients receiving reperfusion therapy

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 15:42 in Health & Medicine

For patients with a certain type of heart attack, delay in the time between first contact with emergency medical service to initiation of therapy such as balloon angioplasty is associated with an increased risk of death, according to a study in the August 18 issue of JAMA.

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