Friday, February 13, 2015

Requires measures to improve cardiac care – Dagens Industri

Requires measures to improve cardiac care – Dagens Industri

Requires measures to improve cardiac care

                  2015-02-14 01:37
             

The Swedish cardiac care has deficiencies that require extensive measures, according to a report from SwedeHearts quality index published in Dagens Nyheter on.

Although Sweden is in top in terms of cardiac care is a lot to be desired. It takes among other things, for a long time to open the coronary artery closed by a blood clot in several counties, which affects patients’ prognosis. Patients with less heart attacks may also wait too long for surgery. Also, do not care enough to get patients to change their lifestyle, writes the report’s authors.

Nearly half of all smokers who suffered heart attacks have not stopped after a year and almost half have participated in the training program. According to the authors need the information to patients develops and coordination of cardiac care improves.

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