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Almost all major heart attack patients get correct treatment at American hospitals, new study finds
Associated Press
NEW YORK – 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 the patients’ 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.
