Why the study?
Does increased utilization of emergency percutaneous coronary intervention improve in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Does increased utilization of emergency percutaneous coronary intervention improve in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Increased utilization of emergency PCI over a decade is associated with significantly reduced in-hospital mortality for AMI, particularly in high-risk patients.
Associated mortality reduction warrants no practice change; leaves open whether higher emergency PCI rates causally improve AMI outcomes.
This large cohort study from Tokyo revealed that in-hospital mortality of AMI significantly decreased with the increase in emergency percutaneous coronary intervention rate over the decade, particularly for high-risk patients such as older patients and those with cardiogenic shock.
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Miyachi et al. (2022) studied this question.
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