Prof Jan Jacob Piek is appointed co-Chair of the global initiative. Read the announcement and learn more about Prof Jan Jacob Piek's professional background.
Prof Jan Jacob Piek is appointed co-Chair of the global initiative. Read the announcement and learn more about Prof Jan Jacob Piek's professional background.
As every year, right before the EuroPCR conference, Stent – Save a Life! will be hosting its annual Forum meeting on Monday 18th May 2020 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.
Stent – Save a Life! is delighted to welcome Dr Ahmed Vachiat, new Country Champion for South Africa, as he is taking over the STEMI SA Chairmanship from Dr Adriaan Snyders.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Stent-Save a Life! and some renowned African scientific societies recently echoed this African proverb by uniting their efforts to hold collaborative sessions with the objective to tackle the problem of regional challenges of reperfusion.
Myanmar had already seized, a few years earlier, the importance of improving the medical approach for AMI patients. The results of the study conducted for the 2 years following the Mandalay General Hospital programme are now available and speak for themselves.
Developed to demonstrate the financial, economic and clinical benefit of timely STEMI admissions and primary PCI treatment, the Stent for Life Economic Model project was run between 2009 and 2015 at the onset of the initiative in 4 different regions: Romania, Portugal, Spain and the Russian Federation.
Following the great success of the Egyptian national pPCI registry programme (2001-2017), the Acute Coronary Syndrome registry was launched in November 2018. A year later, the local Stent-Save a Life! team shares the first results of this initiative.
Striving to advance and promote cardiovascular intervention in Latin American and the Carribean, SOLACI naturally joined forces with Stent-Save a Life! during its recent annual congress to tackle challenges faced in the reperfusion treatment of heart attack patients.
As more countries are joining Stent-Save a Life! – all bringing in specific dynamics and challenges – why not learn more about the new members and their motivations for signing-up with the global initiative? In this edition, our Member Insight section takes you to Uruguay in the Latin America region.
Hosted during the EuroPCR week, the Stent-Save a Life! 10th annual Forum was the opportunity for the global initiative to retrospectively look at the path covered since its launch in 2008 and lay the foundation for a more efficient and standardised management of STEMI patients along the referral pathway.