Balloon Tip Time Changer for Windows 8/7 or Notification Time Changer for Windows 10 is a simple freeware tool that lets you customize and set your own time for the balloon tips or Windows ...

Prompt reperfusion treatment is essential for patients who have myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation. Guidelines recommend that the interval between arrival at the hospital and ...

Door-to-balloon time has dropped dramatically as hospitals rush heart attack patients into treatment, but a five-year study shows quicker hospital care has not saved more lives. Door-to-balloon time ...

Dr. Morton Kern has engaged his colleagues in 'conversations in cardiology' brief, informal dialogue on relevant topics in interventional cardiology. With permission from Dr. Kern and his colleagues, ...

The door-to-balloon (D2B) time (the time it takes for a hospital to treat a heart attack patient after he or she arrives at the hospital) has fallen substantially since the launch of the D2B Alliance ...

"The ER doctor ordered the heart cath, so I just went ahead and did it. Besides, if I didn't do the cath it would make our door-to-balloon-time quality score go down." I was four miles from home on a ...

A key player recalls the effort that went into a life-saving campaign. In a session dedicated to the history of STEMI treatment, insider Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, of Yale University School of ...