Patients who received timely preferred treatment had an unadjusted mortality rate of 4.1%, compared with 7.4% for those who did not. Photograph: Getty Images
Just 61 per cent of patients who suffered a major heart attack in 2024 received the preferred treatment within the recommended two hours after diagnosis, a new report has found.
Timely primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), which involves inserting a catheter into an artery, is recognised internationally as the preferred treatment for a major heart attack.
However, 77 per cent of all eligible patients received this treatment in 2024,
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