Held on Wednesday, October 17, 2007, in Hershey, the conference was attended by over 200 members of the medical community and was successful in sharing best practice protocols and pathways for improving door-to-balloon time in Pennsylvania. Presentations from the meeting are listed here in an easy-to-use PPS (PowerPoint Show) format. After clicking on a file, click "open" to view the presentation. You do not need to have MS PowerPoint installed on your computer to view the files. Title Author(s) Hospital/Facility Reperfusion Therapies 2007 Steven M. Ettinger, MD Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute; American College of Cardiology - Pennsylvania Chapter (PA-ACC) Interdiciplinary Collaboration to Reduce D2B Time Andrew Ball, MD Abington Memorial Hospital Can STEMI patients Transferred for Primary PCI Receive Treatment within 90 Minutes in a Rural Setting? C Randolph Hubbard, James C Blankenship, Marie Sledgen, Kimberly A Skelding, Thomas D Scott, Peter B Berger, Michael A Donegan, G Craig Wood, Frank J Menapace Geisinger Medical Center Overall Catheterization Laboratory Normal Angiography Rate Does Not Increase With Emergency Room Activation Of Primary Coronary Intervention (Pci) For Stemi Timothy J. Boyek M.D., Cindy Brockway, RN, Alain Efstratiou, M.D., Mian A. Jan, M.D., Joseph Lewis, M.D., Verdi J. DiSesa, M.D. The Cardiovascular Center at the Chester County Hospital Reducing D2B Time in STEMI By Utilizing EMS Cath Lab Activation From The Field & Intradepartmental Emergency Physician Activation: An 11 Year 24/7/365 Experience Eric Brader MD FAAEM EMS and D2B in Pennsylvania Douglas F. Kupas, MD, FACEP Commonwealth EMS Medical Director, Bureau of EMS, PA Department of Health CODE STEMI: The PinnacleHealth Experience Donald C. Durbeck, MD., FACC Pinnacle Health Is There a Role for Facilitated PCI in 2007? Howard C. Herrmann, MD, Professor of Medicine; Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Processes to Decrease Door-to-Balloon Times for STEMI Patients in a Community Hospital Sam Ward MD FACC, Pamela Goepfarth MBA RN-C, Mark Izzo MD FACC, William Mecca MD FACC, Wayne Jones DO, Joseph Cacchione MD FACC Saint Vincent Health Center, Erie, Pennsylvania Cardiac Reperfusion Team Protocol Reduces Door-to-Balloon Time at Hamot Medical Center Antonios D. Katsetos, DO, Thomas Williams, MS, Theresa Kisiel, CRNP, Robert J. Ferraro, MD, Ronald S. Strony, MD Hamot Medical Center D2B Strategies and the Role of the Emergency Department John J. Kelly DO, FACEP, Associate Chair, Emergency Medicine Albert Einstein Medical Center Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Jefferson Medical College Delay to EKG in STEMI Patients Does Not Preclude Meeting 90-Minute D2B Time John J. Kelly, Jeffrey Cohn, D.Lynn Morris & Sharon Hibay Albert Einstein Medical Center Meeting Guideline Goals For Stemi PCI Is Related To Transport Time And Speed Of Treating Interventionist C. Randolph Hubbard, James C Blankenship, Marie Sledgen, Kimberly A Skelding, Thomas D Scott, Peter B Berger, Michael A Donegan, G. Craig Wood, Frank J Menapace Geisinger Medical Center Overcoming the Hurdles: Improving DTB in the LVHHN MI-Alert Program Richard S. MacKenzie, MD, FACEP, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network Improving D2B Time in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Sun Scolieri, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute Improving STEMI Care in Eastern PA: The Lehigh Valley Hospital MI-Alert Program (File Size = 39MB)   Michael A. Rossi, MD, Chief, Division of Cardiology & Medical Director, Regional Heart Center   Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Mortality in Women Undergoing Primary PCI for STEMI Bruce Feldman, J. Patrick Kleavland, David Cox, Richard MacKenzie, David Richardson, Jeffrey Snyder, Gerald Pytlewski, Dzanan Ramic, James Reed, Michael Rossi. Lehigh Valley Hospital Door-to-Balloon Time – Every Minute Counts Robert G. Stenberg, MD, Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Daniel R. Wehner, MD, Chairman, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Sandy Horner, RN, Director, Cardiac Services, Karen Allshouse, RN, BS, Coordinator, Cardiac Services Conemaugh Health Services