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Myocardial salvage and mortality in STEMI : A race against ischemic time
Author(s) -
Sardar M. Rizwan,
Dawn Abbott J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.26599
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , door to balloon , percutaneous coronary intervention , myocardial infarction , emergency medicine , primary angioplasty
Key Points Total ischemic time (IT) and door‐to‐balloon time (DBT) are two important measures in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). IT is a better predictor of cardiovascular outcomes than DTB, including infarct size and mortality, in STEMI patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention. IT should be adopted as a standard metric to measure quality of care in STEMI, and will help to promote improvements to our health care delivery system.