Immediate Angioplasty Post Heart Attack

New studies show that performing an angioplasty directly after a person
suffers from a heart attack is the best way to increase survival rates.
Generally after a heart attack most patients are given medications that
increase blood flow and ward off blood clots, then later they have
angioplasty performed. This study aims to eliminate the medication phase and
go straight into angioplasty because evidence claims to show that survival
is higher when doing so.

Forbes said, "After six months, 11 percent of those who had quick
angioplasty had a major adverse cardiac event or died, compared to 17.2
percent of those assigned to standard treatment."

These trials are still in their early stages and require further research
and testing, which is why such tactics have yet to emerge as mainstream
methods post-heart attack.

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