Regional to tertiary inter-hospital transfer versus in-house percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

To address the inaccessibility of interventional cardiac services in North Queensland a new cardiac catheterisation laboratory (CCL) was established in Mackay Base Hospital (MBH) in February 2014.

Objective

To determine whether the provision of in-house angiography and/or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) 1) minimises treatment delays 2) further reduces the risk of mortality, recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) and recurrent ischaemia 3) improves patient satisfaction and 4) minimises cost expenditure compared with inter-hospital transfer for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Methods

We compared ACS patients who were transferred to tertiary centres from July 2012 to June 2013 with those who received in-house angiography and/or PCI from Febr

SUBMITTER: Javat D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6013182 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature