February 18 - 25, 2000
Beating the Clock on Heart Attack
Five million adults arrive each year at the nation's emergency departments suffering from chest pain. Some 487,000 died of heart attacks in 1999; half within the first hour of the onset of symptoms.
"Time is muscle is not just a medical myth," says UAB cardiologist John Canto, M.D., medical director of the UAB Chest Pain Unit. UAB Hospital was the first in Alabama routinely to use state-of-the-art technology called myocardial nuclear perfusion imaging (MPI) in an emergency setting to help diagnose heart attacks as they occur.
February is National Heart Month.
Contact Tracy Bischoff, Media Relations, 205-934-8935 or [email protected].
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