Team approach results in dramatic improvement in timely heart attack care

Healthcare professionals using new time-saving strategies to coordinate care for patients having a heart attack saw dramatic improvement in 'door-to-balloon' (D2B) times - the time from when a patient enters the hospital to the time blood flow is restored to the heart by opening a blockage with angioplasty. The faster patients are treated, the more likely they are to survive. The results are published by Yale researchers and their colleagues in the December 15 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology...

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