American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 6 , Pages 1054-1058 , June 2008

Direct ambulance admission to the cardiac catheterization laboratory significantly reduces door-to-balloon times in primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Received 26 October 2007 ,Accepted 19 January 2008.

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☆ This work was supported by a grant from the National Infarct Angioplasty Pilot project, Department of Health, UK.

PII: S0002-8703(08)00060-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.01.014

American Heart Journal
Volume 155, Issue 6 , Pages 1054-1058 , June 2008

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