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In a spectacular turnabout, hospitals are treating almost all major heart-attack patients within the recommended 90 minutes of arrival, a new study finds. Just five years ago, less than half of them got their clogged arteries opened that fast. The time it took to treat such patients plunged from a median of 96 minutes in 2005 to only 64 minutes last year, researchers found.
“Americans who have heart attacks can now be confident that they’re going to be treated rapidly in virtually every hospital of the country,” said Yale cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz. He led the study, published online Monday by an American Heart Association journal, Circulation.
