Heart attack patients winning the race to angioplasty treatment
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Almost all heart attack patients who need the emergency artery-opening procedure known as angioplasty are receiving it within 90 minutes of being admitted to the hospital, a marked improvement from five years ago when most patients waited longer for the life-saving procedure, according to a report by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues.