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Article: STEMI Care: Evolution of a Benchmark.(Cardiac Care Resource Guide)(cath lab )
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- EMS Magazine
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- June 1, 2009
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STEMI Care: Evolution of a Benchmark
By William Dougan, MICP, & Tracey Loscar, MICP
Paramedic cath lab activation improves D2B times in New Jersey
Time is the enemy when it comes to prehospital care. Pick a critical injury or illness, and you will usually hear a prognosis dependent on time. Once in a while, however, we manage a minor victory over Father Time, especially when we can steal back precious minutes and put them to better use. We've seen this not only with trauma care, but also in advances in stroke treatment and interventional cardiac care. The mantra we cite now is, "Time is muscle." The faster we can get time-sensitive patients ...