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

Daniel S Menees, Eric D Peterson, Yongfei Wang, et al N Eng J Med, 2013, 369(10);901-909

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Door-to-balloon time has become a performance measure for the treatment of STEMI, with guidelines recommending 90-minutes or less.

This study analysed annual trends and outcomes in 96,738 patients with primary PCI for STEMI over a 4 year period. They found the door-to-balloon times...


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