What is most important during your heart attack?
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It’s a critical period that measures how long it takes a hospital to move a heart attack patient from its ER to its cath lab to open blocked arteries. Because time is everything during a heart attack, The American College of Cardiology says hospitals should accomplish this in less than 90 minutes. Unfortunately the average is 149 minutes. And research shows that anything over 120 increases your chance of dying by 40 percent.
But one hospital is consistently achieving door to balloon times in less than 60 minutes. Saving time. Saving lives. They can do this because they have an experienced heart emergency team who works with an experienced angioplasty team who works with one of the best heart surgery teams anywhere. Who all work with the EMS team when YOU call 911.
To learn more about the power of heart specialists working together as a team, visit bellinheart.org. Welcome to Bellin Health.
