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Some Patients Not Seeking Rapid Heart Attack Care.
2002 FEB 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 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 more lives, these patient groups should be educated about the importance of rapidly seeking emergency care at the onset of heart attack symptoms. Once these patients arrive at the hospital, health care providers need to make sure they are treated promptly."
Researchers examined delays in hospital arrival and treatment in two large, multinational studies of nearly 28,000 patients who were experiencing symptoms of cardiac arrest and received fibrinolytic therapy. The studies, conducted seven years apart, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Some Patients Not Seeking Rapid Heart Attack Care.