How to Care for Patients Experiencing the Deadliest Heart Attack

What’s the difference between a heart attack and the deadliest heart attack? In this episode, Dr. Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, who is a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and long-time volunteer of the American Heart Association, answers that very question. She also dives into a new policy paper from the American Heart Association on how hospitals can provide the highest quality of care for patients experiencing the deadliest heart attack and discusses why the association created Mission Lifeline and Systems of Care.