Believe it or not, heart attack on weekends can be deadlier than other days, a new study by the health experts suggest.
This finding is based on an analysis of 231, 164 heart attack patients admitted to New Jersey hospitals from 1987 to 2002. As per the findings of this study, where mortality rate of patients incurring heart attacks on weekends was 12.9 per cent at the same time mortality rate of patients meeting with heart attacks on weekdays was just 12 per cent.
Experts, who conducted this study, believe that the fundamental reason behind ‘weekend & higher mortality rate’ equation was lack of skilled medical experts during weekends, as most of them aren’t available on weekends. In the words of Dr. Redelmeier:
...the most skilled and savvy people don’t work weekends.
Further, he says that in most of the heart attack cases it was found that patients died due to insufficient care on weekends.
Where this study shows that heart attacks on weekends may prove fatal at the same time it exposes the darker side of the healthcare facilities too, which heart patients are provided, especially on weekends. Therefore, I strongly believe that lackadaisical attitude adopted by hospitals during weekends, as this report shows, should be dealt with strongly and that is possible just by revamping the whole Medicare system.
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Via: USA Today
