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One trial showed that despite a mean treatment delay of 67 minutes, STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI taken first to an emergency department before transfer had equivalent rates of major adverse cardiac events when compared with those who presented directly to a PCI facility. A smaller study showed that taking patients directly to the cardiac center resulted in significantly better survival when compared with patients who were transported to an emergency department.

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