Transferring patients for primary angioplasty: a retrospective analysis of 104 selected high risk patients with acute myocardial infarction

Abstract

Safe and expedient transportation may facilitate the more widespread use of primary angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction. A large randomised multicentre trial is needed to compare the relative merits of intravenous thrombolytic treatment in a local hospital with primary angioplasty after transfer in selected high risk patients with acute myocardial infarction.