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Saving lives
(BBC 21/01/2009)
"We have a 36-year-old man with a suspected heart attack coming in by ambulance and he should arrive in 20 minutes," the medical director told me. I managed to arrive in the corridor with my small camera just before John Truckle, from Clevedon, was wheeled down into a waiting bay. Mr Truckle kindly allowed my unique access to film the primary angioplasty that was to save his life.
(BBC 24/11/2008)
Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital was part of a trail using emergency angioplasty on heart attack victims. Last month, a Department of Health study concluded the trial had been a success. The hospital already performs 370 coronary angioplasty operations a month and is now hoping to open a fourth lab [includes video of procedure].
How doctors saved my life after a heart attack in less time than it took to queue at my bank
(Daily Mail 15/11/2008)
'The pain in my chest and arms was unbearable,' he says. 'On a scale of one to ten, it was a ten. I was terrified.' Just over an hour later, Andrew was undergoing primary angioplasty. Carried out under local anaesthetic, it involves clearing blocked arteries by inflating a tiny balloon inserted through a tube via a major blood vessel in the groin or arm. It can take between 25 minutes and 2 hours.
Heart attack victims face longer journey for surgery as only 54 hospitals can now operate
(Daily Mail 19/10/2008)
The Department of Health will announce tomorrow that balloon angioplasty - administered to treat heart attacks caused by blocked arteries - will be made available to nearly every eligible patient. But the procedure is available at only 54 centres across England - about one in every four hospitals.
Heart attack plan 'to save lives'
(BBC 19/10/2008)
The government wants 97% of eligible heart attack patients to have primary angioplasty within the next three years. In this method, a balloon and tube are used to unblock arteries and permit blood flow. A death rate cut from 7% to 5% is predicted, saving about 240 lives a year. Currently only 25% get the surgery, with the rest given clot-busting drugs.
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