The Influence of Acute Myocardial Infarction Checklist on the Door-to-Balloon Time

Myocardial Infarction Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Influence of Acute Myocardial Infarction Checklist on the Door-to-Balloon Time in Patients Suffering From Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00632788
• Other study ID #: 97005
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 3, 2008
• Last updated: March 3, 2008
• Start date: April 2006
• Est. completion date: December 2007

Study information

• Verified date: January 2008
• Source: Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was designed to investigate the influence of the acute myocardial infarction checklist on the door-to-balloon time in patients suffering from acute STEMI at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 213
• Est. completion date: December 2007
• Est. primary completion date: October 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• all patients who presented to the emergency department of Far Eastern Memorial Hospital within 12 hours of the onset of ischemic chest pain

• patients with diagnostic criteria of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction on electrocardiogram, e.g. at least 0.1 mV in two or more contiguous electrocardiographic leads or a new onset of bundle branch block

• patients were preparing for emergency cardiac catheterization

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients who did not fulfill the diagnostic criteria of acute myocardial infarction on electrocardiogram

• patients who were not eligible for cardiac catheterization

• patients who refused cardiac catheterization

• patients who suffered from acute myocardial infarction after admission to ward or intensive care unit for any reason

• patients who had an ambiguous diagnosis that the decision of emergency cardiac catheterization was made after admission to ward or intensive care unit

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Infarction
• Myocardial Infarction

Intervention

Other:
• acute myocardial infarction checklist
For every patient fulfilling the criteria of enrollment, an acute myocardial infarction checklist was incorporated into the patient's medical records at emergency department immediately after a diagnosis of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction was made. All the time sequences concerning different managements at different locations were recorded by nurses and/or physicians as instructions on the checklist.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Far Eastern Memorial Hospital	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	median door-to-balloon time		at cath. lab	No
Secondary	in-hospital mortality		at hospital discharge	No