Where are all the heart attacks

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04-20-2020, 08:49 PM

(04-20-2020, 08:42 PM)oldalum Wrote: I read somewhere an article, I think by an emergency medicine physician, that the cardiologists at his hospital were treating patients with TPA rather than taking them to the cath lab. Maybe it was in NYC and was due to shortages of PPE, I don't remember. If true, it raises some questions . . .

Mentioned as a positive explanation in the article, but this is substandard care. Particularly in high volume cath labs, this is bad.

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04-20-2020, 08:49 PM

(04-20-2020, 08:42 PM)oldalum Wrote: I read somewhere an article, I think by an emergency medicine physician, that the cardiologists at his hospital were treating patients with TPA rather than taking them to the cath lab. Maybe it was in NYC and was due to shortages of PPE, I don't remember. If true, it raises some questions . . .

Mentioned as a positive explanation in the article, but this is substandard care. Particularly in high volume cath labs, this is bad.

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