Emergency Medicine

Some Patients Not Seeking Rapid Heart Attack Care

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 28th, 2002

A study in the current Annals of Emergency Medicine finds the elderly, women, diabetic patients and minorities, who are experiencing symptoms of a heart attack, are more likely to experience delays in hospital arrival, and once in the hospital, delays in receiving treatment with thrombolytic (clot-busting) therapy.

"Clot-busting drugs can stop some heart attacks and strokes in progress, reducing disability and saving lives," said W. Brian Gibler, MD, of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. "But to receive the most benefit from these drugs, they must be given relatively quickly after heart attack symptoms first appear. To save...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-02-28)

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