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Improving Door-to-Balloon Time in STEMI

NCT00800163 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2010-07-23

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

ED Activation/Immediate Transfer

ED Physician Activation and Immediate Transfer Protocol - see Circulation. 2007;116:67-76

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Francis Hospitals & Health Centers

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Umesh N Khot, M.D. · Indiana Heart Physicians/St. Francis Heart Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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