STEMI

Mission Delhi ups heart attack patients' survival chances

The Mission Delhi aims to provide care to STEMI, a very serious type of heart attack, patients, who require treatment within the golden hour (90 minutes) of the onset of symptoms and providing clot buster therapy within 30 minutes.

Jul 19, 2019, 16:27 PM IST

Delayed treatment can worsen heart attack impact

Door-to-balloon time is the time from when a heart attack patient arrives in the emergency room until percutaneous coronary intervention is performed to restore blood flow.

Dec 29, 2015, 19:31 PM IST

Can Diwali give you a heart attack?

Researchers compared air quality measurements to the number of patients treated for heart attacks between September 1993 and May 2014.

Nov 09, 2015, 16:10 PM IST