“The delays we are seeing in heart attack patients coming to hospital have significant harmful consequences,” said EAPCI President, Professor Dariusz Dudek. “Patients who do not present promptly are in a far worse condition when they finally arrive at hospital and they are often too late to benefit from the life-saving treatment that we can provide.”
“Don’t delay if you have heart attack symptoms: call emergency,” said Professor Dudek. “Every minute counts.”
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The EAPCI survey also revealed that the number of other procedures has been drastically reduced during the pandemic. “Interventions on heart valves and other procedures must resume as soon as the local COVID-19 situation allows it. We need to avoid needless suffering and death,” said Professor Dudek.
Professor Casadei said: “Patients’ fears of becoming infected by going to hospital must be addressed. They need to be assured that the in-hospital risk of coronavirus infection has been minimised for patients being admitted with heart attacks or strokes. If you have chest pain or other heart attack symptoms – such as pain in the throat, neck, back, stomach or shoulders that lasts for more than 15 minutes – you must call an ambulance. Remember that COVID-19 mortality is 10 times lower than that of an untreated heart attack. And rapid treatment for a heart attack works.”
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