Door-to-Balloon Time and Mortality among Patients Undergoing Primary PCI

Menees, Daniel; D. Peterson, Eric; Wang, Yongfei; P. Curtis, Jeptha; C. Messenger, John; S. Rumsfeld, John; S. Gurm, Hitinder

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1208200

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Door-to-Balloon Time and Mortality among Patients Undergoing Primary PCI

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Sep 4, 2013

Authors:

Daniel Menees

Eric D. Peterson

Yongfei Wang

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Current guidelines for the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction recommend a door-to-balloon time of 90 minutes or less for patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Door-to-balloon time has become a performance measure and is the focus of re...

Subject

Medicine

Conventional PCI

Door-to-balloon

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