Myocardial salvage and mortality in STEMI: A race against ischemic time.
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.
Brown Medical School, Division of Cardiology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.
M Rizwan
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Sardar
Brown Medical School, Division of Cardiology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.
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Dawn Abbott
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome