Berlin Heart medicine is top

In Berlin, far fewer people are dying of a heart attack than in other regions of Germany. This positive health message yesterday to the Berlin Medical Association President Guenther Jonitz and the chairman of the Berlin heart attack Registry Association (BHIR) and Head of Internal Medicine and Cardiology Clinic Medical Park Berlin Humboldt Mill, Professor Heinz Theres, indicated. Statistically, died in Berlin in 2006, thus 22.8 people per 100 000 inhabitants in a myocardial infarction. The national average is 72.8 with died per 100 000 inhabitants, far higher. Chamber President Jonitz praised the "exceptionally good care of heart attack patients in Berlin." The local clinics were "nation-wide tip." Even the chairman BHIR Theres sees "good quality of care for heart attack patients," as a reason for the low mortality rate in Berlin. As the acute myocardial infarction at a hospital treating emergency act, play the primary care doctors and hospital care a "prominent role", said Birga Maier, scientific director of the Documentation Center of BHIR at the Center for innovative health technology at the TU Berlin. In general, doctors and hospital outpatient physicians heart attacks are not reported. The statistics of the Berlin heart attack register is based on a voluntary survey of 26 hospitals in Berlin, the ten years since the stroke numbers documented. Among the hospitals that are on the register participate include the University Hospital Charité, Berlin, the casualty hospital in Marzahn, the Martin Luther Hospital in Wilmersdorf, which Vivantes-Klinika in Friedrichshain, in Hellerdorf, Neukölln, Prenzlauer Berg, Spandau On Urban . Since 1999, these heart-to-register Clinics 15 000 patients data. The aim of the survey: collection of data, diagnosis and therapy, internal and external quality assurance of supply, increase efficiency of individual hospitals. According to the chairman Theres BHIR-hospital mortality was in Berlin even fallen steadily. Within eight years (2000 to 2007), the mortality of 12.2 percent to 6.7 percent. This means 1830 rescued heart attack patients who died since 2000, when the hospital mortality rate would be unchanged. Even more remarkable was the decline in mortality among so-called high-risk patients such as elderly patients or diabetic patients. Thus, in patients over 80 years, with a heart attack in a Berlin hospital were submitted, the hospital mortality rate of 26.4 percent (in the years 2000/2001) to 13.8 percent (in the years 2006/2007) declined. This would represent extrapolated rescued 1,080 patients since 2000. Clogged heart attack when a vessel by a blood clot. The result: heart cells from dying irretrievably, the fist major muscle its full pumping may no longer bring (proposes more than 100 000 times a day, about five liters of blood per minute). Danger! Therefore, every minute counts (112 call). The sooner a stroke patient properly, the more tissue survived. The supply of heart attack patients consists of the reopening of the closed coronary vessel using a catheter and a drug therapy. According to the Senate Health Administration in 2006 a total of 7648 Berlin in the hospitals because of a heart attack have been treated. 777 died on myocardial infarction.