Team approach results in dramatic improvement in timely heart attack care

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 22:21 in Health & Medicine

Health care professionals using new time-saving strategies to coordinate care for patients having a heart attack saw dramatic improvement in "door-to-balloon" 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.

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