By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Switching from helicopter to ground transport between two Texas hospitals cut the time heart attack patients had to wait to have their arteries unblocked by more than half an hour, according to a new study. “What we showed in our study was by tweaking our system, in this case by changing our mode of transportation from air to ground, we actually took median treatment time from about 121 minutes beforehand to 90 minutes afterward,” Dr. Timothy Mixon told Reuters Health in a phone call. He and coauthor Dr. Luis Colato wrote the paper that was published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. The change to ground transport resulted in more than 90 percent of patients being treated within national guideline time of less than 120 minutes, the authors say, versus less than half getting treatment within that two-hour window before. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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