Incidence of events after direct PTCA and thrombolytic treatment according to time between onset of symptoms and randomisation
| <2 hours | ⩾2 hours | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-hospital lysis | Direct PTCA | Pre-hospital lysis | Direct PTCA | |||
| Events are expressed in relative numbers (%), median time with interquartile range. | ||||||
| NS, not significant. | ||||||
| Modified from Steg et al,19 with permission. | ||||||
| Time to therapy (mins) | 95 (40–175) | 150 (82–260) | <0.0001 | 195 (120–570) | 258 (150–1275) | <0.0001 |
| Death | 2.2 | 5.7 | 0.06 | 5.9 | 3.7 | NS |
| Reinfarction | 4.0 | 1.4 | NS | 3.4 | 2.2 | NS |
| Stroke | 1.3 | 0.0 | NS | 0.6 | 0.0 | NS |
| Cardiogenic shock | 1.3 | 5.3 | 0.03 | 3.9 | 4.4 | NS |