Paramedic-initiated helivac to tertiary hospital for primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a strategy for improving treatment delivery times.

Conclusions: Paramedic-initiated helivac of STEMI patients from the field directly to the CCL for PPCI is safe and feasible and can significantly improve time-to-treatment to within benchmark timeframes, resulting in reduced hospital LOS. PMID: 31285874 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31285874?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - July 10, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research