As a healthcare Provider there are many ways to get involved personally or help your agency or organization be more proactive in becoming a part of the STEMI System. Knowledge is power!
- Contact your local AHA Mission: Lifeline representative
- Learn what an IDEAL STEMI System entails. Whether you are in a rural or metro setting there are resources for everyone.
- Read the RACE Manual and understand what goes into a Regional Approach to Cardiovascular Disease
- Check our RESOURCES PAGE for more information on what others have accomplished.
- Additional Resources to learn from:
- Measuring and building Quality for STEMI Systems of CARE – a PPT from Mayme Lou Rettig RN, MSN
- ACC/AHA focused update for STEMI and PCI
- Time is Muscle – Translation Into Practice
- AHA Mission: Lifeline Recommendations for Criteria for STEMI Systems of Care
- Integration of Pre-Hospital Electrocardiograms and ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Receiving Center (SRC) Networks
- Factors Associated With False-Positive Emergency Medical Services Triage for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- “False-Positive” Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Activation Among Patients With Suspected ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
- ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-Elevation myocardial infarction—executive summary
- AHA Scientific Statement on Prehospital 12-Lead ECGs
- ACC/AHA 2008 Statement on Performance Measurement and Reperfusion Therapy
- Any delay in D2B time associated with increased mortality
- Pre-Hospital 12-Lead Electrocardiography Programs – A Call for Implementation by Emergency Medical Services Systems Providing Advanced Life Support
EMS Tools
- Reperfusion Checklist
- POE Algorithm from Boston EMS
- POE Protocol from RACE
- EMS training materials ordering information
- STEMI protocol diagram
- Mission: Lifeline Certification Requirements
- Inappropriate Activation Form
- Mission: Lifeline Community
STEMI Referral Hospital Tools
- STEMI protocol diagram
- Mission: Lifeline Certification Requirements
- Inappropriate Activation Form
- Mission: Lifeline Community
- Hospital Registration Form
STEMI-Receiving Hospital Tools
- STEMI protocol diagram
- American College of Cardiology D2B Core Strategies
- Mission: Lifeline Certification Requirements
- Inappropriate Activation Form
- Mission: Lifeline Community
- Hospital Registration Form
STEMI System Tools
- Online questionnaire and STEMI system registration
- American College of Cardiology D2B web site
- Mission: Lifeline Certification Requirements
- Inappropriate Activation Form
- Mission: Lifeline Community
- Online questionnaire and STEMI system registration
Health Agency Tools and Policymakers Tools
