Nearly Half Of Heart Attack Patients Treated By Primary Angioplasty

This year's results from the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) show that nearly half of heart attack patients are receiving primary angioplasty rather than thrombolytic (clot-busting) drugs. Primary angioplasty is a medical procedure to re-open the blocked coronary artery causing the heart attack, and has better outcomes than thrombolytic drugs.