Many Heart Attack Patients Don't Get Best Emergency...(ents who came to the hospital with no ch...),Health

Date:8/19/2007

ents who came to the hospital with no chest pain but with other symptoms of heart attack were less than one-third as likely as those with chest pain to get emergency reperfusion treatment. Patients who waited six or more hours before they reached the hospital were 40 percent less likely to get emergency reperfusion.

Reference: American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 120, No.8, August, 2007, online at http://amjmed.com

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