{"id":4439,"date":"2010-11-08T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:43","slug":"non-stemi-patients-delay-seeking-help-just-as-long-as-stemi-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/11\/08\/non-stemi-patients-delay-seeking-help-just-as-long-as-stemi-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-STEMI Patients Delay Seeking Help Just As Long as STEMI Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-STEMI patients delayed going to the hospital for as long in 2006 as they did in 2001,\u00a0according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/170\/20\/1834\">report published in the <em>Archives of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>. Henry Ting and colleagues analyzed data from 104,622 non-STEMI patients enrolled in\u00a0the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the American College of\u00a0Cardiology\/American Heart Association Guidelines) registry and found that the median delay time from the onset of symptoms to hospital arrival\u00a0was 2.6 hours. Nearly 60% of patients took at least 2 hours before arriving at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Delay times for STEMI and non-STEMI patients are similar, the authors report. They write: &#8220;Because patients cannot differentiate whether symptoms are due to STEMI or non-STEMI, early presentation is desirable in both instances,&#8221; adding: &#8220;Novel strategies to improve patient responsiveness to seek care are critical and important for both patients with STEMI or non-STEMI.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-STEMI patients delayed going to the hospital for as long in 2006 as they did in 2001,\u00a0according to a report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Henry Ting and colleagues analyzed data from 104,622 non-STEMI patients enrolled in\u00a0the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[532,531,245,282,256,257],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-crusade","tag-delays","tag-mi","tag-non-stemi","tag-nstemi","tag-stemi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}