Why the study?
Does prehospital cardiac catheterization laboratory activation improve door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients with STEMI arriving by ambulance?
Does prehospital cardiac catheterization laboratory activation improve door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients with STEMI arriving by ambulance?
Prehospital cath lab activation for STEMI significantly reduces door-to-balloon time but does not improve in-hospital mortality and is associated with a higher rate of false-positive activations.
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Shorter door-to-balloon times with prehospital activation come with more false positives and no mortality reduction; leaves open net benefit and should not yet change practice.
Squire et al. (2013) studied this question.
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