As stated by Mike, an interesting debate ...
Suffice it to say that running on blues for the 90% of patients with
chest pains who are NOT having an MI is not exactly a firm favourite of
our crews ...
If we are going to be evidence based, I think the evidence points
towards primary angioplasty being superior to thrombolysis - that is
certainly the message when we benchmark with US services.
In which case, the reason we take a 12 lead pre-hospital is to determine
whether we are going to go straight to a cath lab.
3 cases thusfar, one by heli and a door to cath time of 7 minutes with
the heli one.
Who needs targets ...
Next stage facilitated thrombolysis ...
Anton
Staffs
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