CMAJ • June 19, 2007; 176 (13). doi:10.1503/cmaj.060902.
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Jacobus S. de Villiers, Todd Anderson, James D. McMeekin, Raymond C.M. Leung, Mouhieddin Traboulsi for the Foothills Interventional Cardiology Service and the Calgary STEMI QIHI group

From the Department of Cardiac Sciences and Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.


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  		Fig. 1: Pre-hospital diagnosis and transfer pathway for primary percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with suspected ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the Calgary Health Region. MI = myocardial infarction, ECG = electrocardiogram.

 

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  		Fig. 2: Cumulative proportion of patients (n = 358) who received primary percutaneous coronary intervention over time (door-to-balloon time) in the 16 months following the implementation of a pre-hospital diagnosis and transfer pathway in Calgary. Dotted line represents the proportion of patients in whom reperfusion was achieved within the recommended 90-minute window.

 

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