Improving Door-to-Balloon Time in STEMI (EHART)

St. Francis Hospitals & Health Centers

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Myocardial Infarction

Treatments: Other: ED Activation/Immediate Transfer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00800163

St. Francis Heart Center-EHART

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

Please see Circulation. 2007;116:67-76

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Primary Study Inclusion Criteria:

• ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients who undergo percutaneous intervention within 24 hours of ED arrival

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are inpatients

A registry of all patients who undergo emergency cardiac catheterization irrespective of etiology is maintained.

Trial design

1,000 participants in 1 patient group

ED Physician Activation/Immediate Transfer

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: ED Activation/Immediate Transfer