Investigation on related factors of delayed treatment in patients with acute myocardial infarction / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigation and analysis the related factors of delayed treatmen (pre-hospital and in-hospital) in pa-tients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) .Methods 218 patients with AMI from inpatient department of cardiology and emer-gency ,and to analyze the factors that may affect patients medical timely through investigated and analyzed more than 20 specific fac-tors ,including general information ,human and social factors ,etc .Results In 218 case of AMI ,47 cases of timely treatment (21 .6% ) ,171 cases of delaying treatment (78 .4% ) in 218 patients with AMI .The results showed that education level ,disease awareness level ,economic income ,previous history of heart disease ,chest pain level ,treatment distance ,transport choices and whether call a first-aid or not had significant differences between timely treatment group and delaying treatment group (P<0 .05) . Hospital diagnosis and treatment delay may link with waiting time ,waiting for examination ,the doctor′s advice-delivery time .Con-clusion Patients with AMI treatment delay is serious ,the awareness of patients timely treatment and hospital management system should be further improved .