Thomas W. Concannon, Ph.D. has had his findings on the availability of angioplasty published in the January 2011 issue of Circulation. Dr. Concannon found that while over a five-year period, there has been a 44 percent increase in the number of hospitals offering emergency care such as angioplasty to restore normal blood flow after a heart attack, access to care has improved by only 1 percent. A summary of the findings were presented on DailyRx.
