Myocardial infarction centres: the way forward.

H R Andersen, C J Terkelsen, L Thuesen, L R Krusell, S D Kristensen, H E Bøtker, J F Lassen, T T Nielsen

Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2005-05-28 · Other / unclear

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Abstract

In the era of primary PCI, a strategy of admitting patients to the nearest hospital should be obsolete. Instead, a prehospital diagnostic strategy should be implemented in order to: (1) refer patients directly to interventional centres, thereby eliminating delay at local hospitals; (2) alert the interventional centre, thereby reducing door to balloon times; (3) initiate adjunctive medication in the prehospital phase.