Journal of interventional cardiology
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Comparative Study
Variability in maximal suggested door-in-door-out time for hospitals transferring patients for primary angioplasty in STEMI.
We derived a formula for maximal suggested door-in-door-out time (DIDO) for hospitals that do not perform primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). ⋯ Transferring hospitals' maximal suggested DIDO is variable, and can be calculated from inter-hospital transport time. Instead of a universal target DIDO (e.g., <30 minutes), maximal suggested DIDO can be calculated individually for each non-PCI hospital within a STEMI network.