ArticleArchives of academic emergency medicine2019
The Role of Pre-Hospital Telecardiology in Reducing the Coronary Reperfusion Time; a Brief Report.
Article in Archives of academic emergency medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The effects of mobile health on emergency care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.Journal of global health · 2021Pooled it
- Evaluation of Effective Factors in the Prognosis of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Transferred by Emergency Medical Services and Self-Referred Patients in Tehran.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2026Article
- Electrocardiogram interpretation competency among emergency nurses and emergency medical service (EMS) personnel: A cross-sectional and comparative descriptive study.Nursing open · 2021Article
- Spatial-time analysis of cardiovascular emergency medical requests: enlightening policy and practice.BMC public health · 2021Article
- The effect of prehospital telecardiology on the mortality and morbidity of ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: A cross-sectional study.Turkish journal of emergency medicineArticle
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Abstract
introductionTelecardiology is defined as using telecommunication for remote treatment of cardiac patients. This study aimed to assess the role of pre-hospital triage via telecardiology on coronary reperfusion time of patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
methodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted from September, 2015 to January, 2018 in six academic referral hospitals, Tehran, Iran. Studied patients were divided into two groups of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) following telecardiology or PCI following emergency department (ED) diagnosis of STEMI and time to reperfusion was compared between them.
results1205 patients with the mean age of 58.99 ± 12.33 (19-95) years entered the study (82.7% male). 841 (69.8%) cases were transferred directly to the Cath-Lab following telecardiology and 364 (30.2%) cases were first admitted to the ED. There was no significant difference between the groups regarding mean age (p = 0.082) and gender (p = 0.882) of participants. Symptom-to-device interval time in patients who underwent PCI following telecardiology was significantly lower (p < 0.001); however, the difference was not significant in the first medical contact (FMC)-to-device interval time (p = 0.268).
conclusionsIt is likely that the use of telecardiology in pre-hospital triage plays an important role in reducing time to PCI for patients with STEMI.
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