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Heart Attack Treatment Guidelines
St. Anthony’s has the region’s first accredited Chest Pain Center and is recognized for its strict compliance to heart attack treatment guidelines. To speed care, we work with local emergency crews to get accurate cardiac information before a patient even gets to the hospital. We also save lives by starting cardiac catheterization procedures and giving clot-busting drugs immediately.
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In cardiac medicine, St. Anthony's has a lower than national average "risk adjusted readmissions" and "clinically adjusted average length of stay" rates. What does that mean to patients? It increases their likelihood of surviving a heart attack and going home sooner!
Clinical Outcomes
The information below shows how often St. Anthony's provides the recommended treatment for people with heart attacks.
A heart attack, also called an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), occurs when the arteries leading to the heart become blocked and the heart does not receive enough oxygen and nutrients from the blood. The part of the heart muscle that is not receiving enough blood may become damaged or die.
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Near average
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Below average
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| Percent of Patients: | St. Anthony's |
National Average |
| Given ACE inhibitor or ARB for left ventricular
systolic dysfunction
Why is it important? ACE inhibitors and ARBs are medicines used to treat heart attacks, heart failure of a decreased function of the heart.
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83% | 89% |
| Given aspirin at arrival
Why is it important? Aspirin can help keep blood clots from forming and dissolve blood clots that can cause heart attacks.
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97% | 94% |
| Given aspirin at discharge
Why is it important? Taking aspirin may help prevent further heart attacks.
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95% | 91% |
| Given beta blocker at arrival
Why is it important? Beta-blockers area a type of medicine used to lower blood pressure, treat chest pain (angina) and heart failure, and to help prevent a heart attack.
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95% | 89% |
| Given beta blocker at discharge
Why is it important? Beta-blockers area a type of medicine used to lower blood pressure, treat chest pain (angina) and heart failure, and to help prevent a heart attack.
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93% | 92% |
| Given fibrinolytic medication within 30 minutes of arrival
Why is it important? Blood clots can cause heart attacks. Doctors may give this medicine, or perform a procedure to open the blockage, and in some cases, may do both.
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NA | 41% |
| Given PCI within 90 minutes of arrival
Why is it important? The procedures called Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) are among those that are the most effective for opening blocked blood vessels that cause heart attacks. Doctors may perform PCI, or give medicine to open the blockage, and in some cases, may do both.
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59% | 70% |
| Given smoking cessation advice or counseling
Why is it important? Smoking is linked to heart attacks. Quitting may help prevent another heart attack.
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100% | 93% |
| 30-day risk adjusted death (mortality) from heart attack
(data reported 7/2006-6/2007)
Why is it important? These comparisons take into account how sick patients were before they were admitted to the hospital and differences in death rates that might be due to chance.
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17.1% | 16.1% |
Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data report 4/2007-3/2008.
Updated: 12/10/2008
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