Heart Attack (AMI) Care

A heart attack (also called an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) occurs when the arteries leading to the heart become blocked and the heart does not receive enough oxygen and nutrients from the blood. The part of the heart muscle that is not receiving enough blood may become damaged or die.

The symptoms of a heart attack can include chest pain, or pain in other areas of the upper body, shortness of breath, dizziness, faintness, chills, sweating and nausea. The symptoms may be mild or severe and may come and go.

The graph below is a combination of five ways to measure hospital care of people with heart attack (AMI), specifically the percentage of people who received aspirin at arrival, who were prescribed aspirin at discharge, who received an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor at discharge, who were prescribed a beta blocker at discharge, and who received a beta blocker at arrival at the hospital.

	TARGET	FY08	FY07	FY06	FY05
AMI - Aspirin at arrival	100%	100%	100%	100%	99%
AMI - Aspirin at discharge	100%	94%	95%	98%	100%
AMI - ACEI or ARB for LVEF	100%	83%	93%	89%	95%
AMI - Adult smoking cessation	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
AMI - Beta blocker prescribed at discharge	100%	100%	98%	95%	100%
AMI - Beta blocker at arrival	100%	92%	98%	99%	98%
AMI - Thrombolytic agent within 30 minutes of arrival	100%	N/P	N/P	100%	22%