HOW DO DOOR TO EKG (D2EKG) AND DOOR TO NEEDLE (D2N) TIMES FOR NEW BRUNSWICK STEMI PATIENTS COMPARE TO CURRENT GUIDELINES?

Improving Door-to-balloon Time by Decreasing Door-to-ECG time for Walk-in STEMI Patients

INTRODUCTION The American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines recommend rapid door-to-electrocardiography (ECG) times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Previous quality improvement research at our institution revealed that we were not meeting this benchmark for walk-in STEMI patients. The objective is to investigate whether simple, dir...

Improving Door-to-Needle Times for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Faster treatment with intravenous alteplase (tissue-type plasminogen activator) results in better outcomes. Although the benchmark door-to-needle time (DTN) has been set at 60 minutes, many centers have been able to exceed this benchmark with median times from 20 to 51 minutes. These local efforts have been supported by national and international efforts to reduce DTN time. For example, the Ame...

door to electrocardiography (ecg) and needle times in patients with myocardial infarction

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Door-to-Needle Times: Let's Not Leave Smaller Hospitals Behind.

Emergency department thrombolysis improves door to needle times.

OBJECTIVE To identify the effect on door to needle (DTN) time of moving the site of thrombolysis delivery from the coronary care unit (CCU) to the emergency department (ED). To ascertain if moving the site of thrombolysis enables appropriate use of thrombolysis. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING CCU and ED of a 450 bed Scottish district general hospital without on-site primary angiop...