Across the nation 75 percent of stemi heart attack patients are sent to the icu most of the time after reperfusion treatment in the cath lab to open up the blocked vessel.
Floor to admit to after stemi.
Among patients with mi there is a strong relationship between degree of hf and mortality.
Non icu care people recovering from a stemi are among some of the very sick patients icus were designed for so providers may not even think about disrupting the.
To preserve icu beds all hemodynamically stable stemi patients following pci should be admitted to an intermediate care telemetry unit with a plan for early 48 hours discharge.
Shavadia md et al used acc s chest pain mi registry to examine patterns of icu use in stemi patients age 65 and older who had been treated with primary pci.
Emergency medical services stemi referral hospitals and pci centers.
1 2 3 readmitted patients may return to the discharging index hospital or may instead seek care at a nonindex hospital for a variety of reasons including travel distance and reason for readmission.
The continuity of care that results from.
Medical therapy for hf after mi includes early.
Although the majority of stemi patients are treated in the icu after undergoing pci only 16 percent develop complications that require icu care according to a study published april 15 in jacc.
In the analysis researchers showed that while more than 80 of patients who underwent uncomplicated primary pci for stemi are admitted to the icu after the procedure.
The optimal management of the patient with hf complicating mi varies according to time since the onset of infarction.
Heart failure hf complicating myocardial infarction mi is common and may be present at admission or develop during the hospitalization.