Summary
With an average treatment time of 74 minutes for hearts in crisis, Deaconess Hospital has eclipsed a 90-minute national benchmark.
The "door-to-balloon" benchmark refers to the amount of time required to move a patient with a major heart attack from the hospital doors to a catheterization lab and clear arterial blockage with balloon angioplasty, which restores blood flow to oxygen- deprived heart tissue.See the full content of this document
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Heart Care Gets Better
"We're pretty excited by it," said Dr. Peter Stevenson, medical director of emergency services for Deaconess Health System. "You save lives. You reduce the incidence of heart damage, a...
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