"The ER doctor ordered the heart cath, so I just went ahead and did it. Besides, if I didn't do the cath it would make our door-to-balloon-time quality score go down." I was four miles from home on a ...
Door-to-balloon time at hospitals decreased from a median of 96 minutes in 2005 to a median of 64 minutes in 2010, according to a study published in Circulation. Researchers studied the median time to ...