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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2014 Jan 14;7(1):86–94. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000396

Table 3.

Association of primary complaint and past medical history with median times

Median times (minutes)*
Chest pain primary complaint History of Diabetes
Mellitus
History of cardiovascular disease
Interval Yes No P-value No Yes P-
value
No Yes P-
value
Symptom onset to 9-1-1 call (n=677) 54 37 <0.01 50 60 0.02 56 50 0.03

EMS arrival to out-of-hospital ECG (n=49,061) 13.5 17 <0.01 n/a n/a n/a n/a

Scene time (n=859) 19 21 0.89 19 21 0.47 19 20.5 0.35

Hospital arrival to balloon inflation (n=301) 63 53 0.85 61 67 0.41 60 66.5 0.49

Medical contact to balloon inflation (n=298) 94 85.5 0.78 94 97 0.46 92.5 97 0.47

Symptom onset to balloon inflation (n=252) 158 122 0.16 156 159 0.81 159 152 0.07

Abbreviations: EMS, emergency medical services; ECG, electrocardiogram

*

Median times are unadjusted

P-values are adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, presence of chest pain as the primary complaint, day of week, time of day, past medical history of cardiovascular disease and past medical history of diabetes mellitus

Data on race, ethnicity and past medical history not available for all participants receiving an out-of-hospital ECG