May 1, 2011The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Impact of Prehospital Delay in Treatment Seeking on In-Hospital Complications After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Why the study?
Does prehospital delay in treatment seeking increase in-hospital complications and length of stay in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Population
536 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), mean age 62 (SD 14) years, 66% men.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
In-hospital
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Discussion
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Implication
May support public education to shorten AMI prehospital delay; hypothesis-generating for prospective trials on complications and length of stay.
Structured PICO
Does prehospital delay in treatment seeking increase in-hospital complications and length of stay in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
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Population
536 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), mean age 62 (SD 14) years, 66% men.
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Intervention
Prehospital delay in treatment seeking
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Outcome
In-hospital complications (including recurrent ischemia, reinfarction, sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, and cardiac death) and hospital length of staycomposite
Prehospital delay in seeking treatment for acute myocardial infarction is significantly associated with increased serious in-hospital complications and longer hospital stays.
Cite This Study
Wu et al. (2011) studied this question.