Open AccessPrehospital delay and time to reperfusion therapy in ST elevation myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Linsha George,
Lakshmi Ramamoorthy,
Santhosh Satheesh,
Rama Prakasha Saya,
D. K. S. Subrahmanyam
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.201580
Subject(s) - medicine , conventional pci , myocardial infarction , percutaneous coronary intervention , reperfusion therapy , st segment , mann–whitney u test , single center , emergency medicine , cardiology
Despite efforts aimed at reducing the prehospital delay and treatment delay, a considerable proportion of patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) present late and receive the reperfusion therapy after unacceptably long time periods. This study aimed at finding out the patients' decision delay, prehospital delay, door-to-electrocardiography (ECG), door-to-needle, and door-to-primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) times and their determinants among STEMI patients.