Prehospital Care of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Japan Problems in 6 Representative Areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Kagoshima, Iwate, Asahikawa, Kumamoto)

Hidehiko Aoki; Teruo Takano; Kazuo Haze; Shin-ichi Arima; Kunihiko Tateda; Kazuya Hayasaki; Jun-ichi Shibata; Katsuhiko Hiramori

doi:10.3918/jsicm.1.85

Prehospital Care of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Japan

Problems in 6 Representative Areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Kagoshima, Iwate, Asahikawa, Kumamoto)

Hidehiko Aoki, Teruo Takano, Kazuo Haze, Shin-ichi Arima, Kunihiko Tateda, Kazuya Hayasaki, Jun-ichi Shibata, Katsuhiko Hiramori

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Keywords: acute myocardial infarction (AMI), prehospital coronary care (PHCC), mobile CCU, by-stander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, sudden cardiac death

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1994 Volume 1 Issue 2 Pages 85-93

DOI https://doi.org/10.3918/jsicm.1.85

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Abstract

Most deaths from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) occur before the patient arrives at the hospital. In the previous symposium at Sapporo, it was emphasized that in order to reduce mortality from AMI, it was extremely urgent to increase public education concerning ischemic heart disease (IHD) and the popularization of by-stander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and to establish a rapid patient transport system.

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