Door-to-Balloon Time in Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Abstract

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), one of a subset of an Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD), is the third leading cause of death in Singapore in 2016[1]. AMI better known as heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked or reduced causing the heart tissue to die. Risk factors such as smoking, diabetes, elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesity increases the risk of a heart attack.