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St. Michael's Hospital
New approach to treating heart attacks reduces risk of life-threatening complications
July 12th, 2009
Transferring heart attack patients to specialized hospitals to undergo angioplasty within six hours after receiving clot-busting drugs reduces the risk of life-threatening complications including repeat heart attacks, according to a new study from St. Michael's Hospital and Southlake Regional Hospital. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that routine early transfer of patients after clot-busting drugs are administered results in significantly better outcomes than the current traditional practice of transferring patients only when the clot-busting drugs fail. The study –which is the largest randomized trial of its...
Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2009-07-12)
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