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Article: Patients urged to demand immediate artery-clearing
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2008
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Patients with chest pain or mild heart attacks who are rushed to
the hospital on nights and weekends should demand doctors
immediately operate to clear their arteries rather than waiting for
the workweek to begin.
A study presented Monday at the American Heart Association's
annual meeting found some patients are 35 percent less likely to
have a heart attack, suffer a stroke or die if they are treated
within 24 hours. Many hospitals delay treatment until cardiac
catheterization lab staff members who clear clogged arteries return
from the weekend, the researchers said.
Numerous studies show patients should get to the hospital as
quickly as possible if they develop chest pain, and those ...