Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Is Rarely Done in the Acute Care of ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Treated by Emergency Medical Services
Urgent or emergent CABG remained infrequently performed for acute STEMI patients after primary diagnostic catheterization. There was little change in the percentage of STEMI patients who received CABG within 72 hours of diagnostic catheterization over the past decade. These findings suggest that regional or local policies requiring on-site cardiac surgery at SRCs may be reconsidered.
Authors
- Robert A. Kloner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6258-0544)
- Sara Rasnake
- Amy Hideko Kaji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-7939)
- Shira Schlesinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6793-2609)
- Nichole Bosson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8356-0772)
- Marianne Gausche‐Hill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6367-8455)
- Jake Toy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0089-5495)
- Nichelle Megowan
- Puneet Dhawan
- Joseph L. Thomas
- William J. French (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6440-5459)
- Christopher S. Lauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6361-6688)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Huntington Medical Research Institutes (US)
- Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- UCLA Medical Center (US)
- Harbor–UCLA Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.35271
- Primary Topic
- Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Huntington Medical Research Institutes