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June 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda TUESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — The largest voluntary
statewide heart attack care program in the United States reduced the time
it takes patients to receive treatment and improved patient survival
rates, a new study says.
The program, called RACE-ER (Reperfusion of Acute Myocardial Infarction
in Carolina Emergency Departments — Emergency Response) includes 119
hospitals and more than 500 emergency-service agencies in North
Carolina.
Between July 2008 and December 2009, RACE-ER decreased from 103 minutes
to 90 minutes the time between a heart attack patient’s first contact with
emergency medical personnel and arrival at a hospital that performs
angioplasty to open blocked heart arteries. Fifty-two percent of those
patients were treated within 60 minutes.
Treatment times for patients transferred from hospitals that don’t
perform angioplasty to hospitals that do perform the procedure fell from
117 minutes to 103 minutes. By December 2009, 39 percent of those patients
were being treated within 90 minutes, researchers from Duke University
Medical Center in Durham, N.C., said.
The study was published June 4 in the journal Circulation.
“When treating heart attacks, the most important care decisions need to
take place before the patient is brought to the hospital,” study first
author Dr. James Jollis, a cardiologist at Duke, said in a university news
release. “These procedures should be in place in every hospital and every
emergency-service system in the country.”
“Every second counts when it comes to salvaging the heart muscle and
saving lives,” study co-author Dr. Christopher Granger, also a
cardiologist at Duke, said in the release.
“This statewide effort was designed to treat patients faster regardless
of the challenges posted by geography or health care settings,” Granger
said. “We coordinated a system of care that starts when the 911 call comes
in, includes the care patients receive in the ambulance and the treatment
they undergo at hospitals to restore blood flow in blocked heart
arteries.”
“As a result, when patients were treated within the 90-minute
door-to-device goal, we were able to reduce [death] rates to 2.2 percent,”
he added.
By comparison, the death rate is 5.7 percent when patients are not
treated within the 90-minute target, according to the release.
More information
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about heart attack treatment.
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