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Does direct admission to the coronary care unit (CCU) by ambulance staff reduce time delays in administering thrombolytic treatment in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Does direct admission to the coronary care unit (CCU) by ambulance staff reduce time delays in administering thrombolytic treatment in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
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Direct admission to the CCU by ambulance staff may reduce delays in administering thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
Sir,—Two recent papers in Heart showed that direct admission of patients with acute myocardial infarction to the coronary care unit (CCU) by ambulance staff reduced time delays in administering thrombolytic treatment.1 2The approach is novel; however, because it involves training a large number of ambulance personnel in reading ECGs as well as …
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