Macedo TA, de Barros E Silva PGM, Simões SA, Okada MY, Garcia JCT, Sampaio MC, Dantas RN, Oliveira RP, Rocha LG, da Cunha Lopes BB, Frigini T, Furlan V. Impact of Chest Pain Protocol with Access to Telemedicine on Implementation of Pharmacoinvasive Strategy in a Private Hospital Network.
Telemed J E Health 2015;
22:549-52. [PMID:
26693879 DOI:
10.1089/tmj.2015.0178]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Brazilian registries have shown a gap between evidence-based therapies and real treatments. We aim to compare the use of the pharmacoinvasive strategy and mortality in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) transferred pre- and post-chest pain protocol with access to telemedicine (CPPT) in a private hospital network.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A CPPT was implemented in 22 private emergency departments in 2012. Emergency physicians and nurses of all facilities were trained to disseminate the information to comply with a chest pain protocol focusing on reperfusion therapy (pharmacoinvasive strategy) for STEMI. To conduct clinical discussions using telemedicine, a cardiologist from a reference hospital in cardiology (RHC) was available 24 h/day, 7 days/week. Using the database of all consecutive admissions, we compared the data of patients with STEMI transferred to the RHC in 2011 (pre-CPPT) and 2013-2014 (post-CPPT).
RESULTS
We included 376 patients (113 pre-CPPT and 263 post-CPPT) with STEMI. All patients admitted in the RHC were transferred from the 22 emergency departments. Comparing pre-CPPT and post-CPPT, we did not find differences regarding age, gender, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, smoking, previous myocardial infarction, or Killip classification. However, the use of CPPT was associated with a greater use of pharmacoinvasive strategy (55.8% versus 38%; p = 0.002) and a trend toward lower in-hospital mortality (3% versus 8%; p = 0.06).
CONCLUSIONS
The implementation of a CPPT was associated with a significant increase in the use of pharmacoinvasive strategy in patients with STEMI and a trend toward reduced in-hospital mortality in a private hospital network.
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