Stent-Save a Life! Egypt recently took the opportunity of the international conference CardioAlex 18 to reflect on some highly engaging topics and test a new approach inciting hospitals to enrol in the national ACS registry.
Since the launch of the Stent-Save a Life! initiative in Argentina 3 years ago, the team is proud to have achieved the most challenging task: put an entire country in motion!
The recent 5th All-Russian meeting on Acute Coronary Syndrome offered Stent-Save a Life! an extraordinary opportunity to send alarm signals to the political community about the lagging development of the country regarding primary PCI access for Russian STEMI patients.
In the wake of the AsiaPCR conference - which was the occasion for Malaysia, Myanmar and Hong-Kong to formally become Stent-Save a Life! members - the global initiative reasserted its broad reach objective through an active participation in the African equivalent meeting that took place in South Africa, at the end of March, and witnessed the accession of Kenya and Sudan to the SSL community.
Saving lives due to STEMI - or heart attacks - calls for a system of care that facilitates diagnosis-to-treatment protocols within a specific time window. STEMI India has developed an innovative and affordable system of care in response to this need - a system that has proven to be successful in shortening the time from diagnosis to treatment in a pilot study and soon to become the model for STEMI management in India... and beyond?
Dr Paul Ong, Stent-Save a Life! co-Regional Champion for Asia, is appointed Co-Chair of the global initiative. Read the announcement and learn more about Dr Paul Ong's professional background.
As one of the early members of the former Stent for Life initiative, Egypt has always been very active demonstrating a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Learn how Egypt, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, significantly improved the level of healthcare provided to AMI patients and their access to an appropriate treatment over the past 8 years.
Consult the biographies of the Latin and South America Regional Champions: Dr. J. Belardi and Dr. J. Mayol to find out what their professional background is and other major contributions in interventional cardiology and STEMI patient management.
The Stent – Save a Life! Forum, which took place on 21 May at EuroPCR, gives members of the initiative and healthcare professionals interested in STEMI care an invaluable opportunity to come together and exchange views on how to improve the delivery of care for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
