Heart Attack Death Rates Unchanged in Spite of Hospitals With Emergency Angioplasty

A study in iNew England Journal of Medicine/i suggests that heart attack deaths have remained the same, even as hospital teams have gotten faster at treating heart attack patients with emergency angioplasty. Hospitals across the country have successfully raced to reduce so-called door-to-balloon time, the time it takes patients arriving at hospitals suffering from a heart attack to be treated with angioplasty, to 90 minutes or less in the belief that it would ...

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