Improving Door-to-Balloon Time in STEMI

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Myocardial Infarction

In brief

The investigators prospectively determined the impact on median door-to-balloon time of a protocol mandating (1) emergency department physician activation of the catheterization lab and (2) immediate transfer of the patient to an immediately available catheterization lab by an in-house transfer team consisting of an emergency department nurse, a critical care unit nurse, and a chest pain unit nurse.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00800163

Run by

St. Francis Hospitals & Health Centers

People needed

1000

Starts

2005-09-01

Expected to finish

2012-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-07-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who are inpatients
• A registry of all patients who undergo emergency cardiac catheterization irrespective of etiology is maintained.

Where it is running

• St. Francis Heart Center — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (enrolling)

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