Shavadia md et al used acc s chest pain mi registry to examine patterns of icu use in stemi patients age 65 and older who had been treated with primary pci.
Floor to admit to after stemi.
Among patients with mi there is a strong relationship between degree of hf and mortality.
Emergency medical services stemi referral hospitals and pci centers.
Stemi regional systems of care system wide.
Updated despite near universal admission of stemi patients to the intensive care unit icu following pci a new study suggests there is a discrepancy between who is sent to the unit and who actually needs to be there.
The optimal management of the patient with hf complicating mi varies according to time since the onset of infarction.
Across the nation 75 percent of stemi heart attack patients are sent to the icu most of the time after reperfusion treatment in the cath lab to open up the blocked vessel.
The continuity of care that results from.
Although the majority of stemi patients are treated in the icu after undergoing pci only 16 percent develop complications that require icu care according to a study published april 15 in jacc.
In the analysis researchers showed that while more than 80 of patients who underwent uncomplicated primary pci for stemi are admitted to the icu after the procedure.
In the united states 10 and 20 of patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after an acute myocardial infarction mi.
Medical therapy for hf after mi includes early.
Heart failure hf complicating myocardial infarction mi is common and may be present at admission or develop during the hospitalization.