Time-to-reperfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction and mortality in prehospital emergency care: meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People living in rural areas usually suffer comparatively disadvantaged emergency health care than those living in urban areas, reasons including long transit time due to geographic factors. As for many time critical diseases, it is necessary to obtain treatment as quickly as possible.

Methods

Screening of eligible studies were conducted based on inclusion an exclusion criteria. A comprehensive search was conducted by using following database: EMBASE, Medline, Cochrane library and Scopus. Quality assessment tool for observational cohort and cross-sectional study is used for assessing the risk of bias. The time group were defined based on the median or mean transit time among patients. In symptom onset-balloon time, we take 120 min transit time as the standard so p

SUBMITTER: Fu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7448494 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature