Table 5.

 Incidence of events after direct PTCA and thrombolytic treatment according to time between onset of symptoms and randomisation

	<2 hours			⩾2 hours
	Pre-hospital lysis	Direct PTCA		Pre-hospital lysis	Direct PTCA
Time to therapy (mins)	95 (40–175)	150 (82–260)	<0.0001	195 (120–570)	258 (150–1275)	<0.0001
Death	2.2	5.7	0.06	5.9	3.7	NS
Reinfarction	4.0	1.4	NS	3.4	2.2	NS
Stroke	1.3	0.0	NS	0.6	0.0	NS
Cardiogenic shock	1.3	5.3	0.03	3.9	4.4	NS

Events are expressed in relative numbers (%), median time with interquartile range.

NS, not significant.

Modified from Steg et al,¹⁹ with permission.