Heart Attack
- Following evidence-based medicine guidelines while providing care
- Tracking our performance and constantly working to improve on heart attack quality measures correlated with better health outcomes
- Planning to build the Scripps Cardiovascular Institute: a world-class heart care center where patients will have access to the nation’s top cardiac experts, most advanced diagnostics, leading-edge treatments and latest research findings in the fight against heart disease.
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- Scripps Green Hospital
- Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas
- Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
- Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista
- Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
Hospital quality measures we provide on this site include:
- Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival
- Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge
- Percent of Heart Attack Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction
- Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
- Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge
- Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival
Note: No data is currently available for the measure “Percent of Patients Given Fibrinolytic Medication Within 30 Minutes Of Arrival.” The number of patients medically qualifying for thrombolytic medication is less than the number needed to produce a reliable statistical analysis. Also, thrombolytic medication is not a recommended care practice for hospitals (like Scripps) that have cardiac catheterization labs.
About Heart Attack
A heart attack (also called an AMI or acute myocardial infarction) happens when the arteries leading to the heart become blocked and the blood supply is slowed or stopped, which destroys heart tissue. Read more.