Leveraging Existing STEMI Networks to Regionalize Cardiogenic Shock Systems of Care: Efforts to Expand the Scope Could Improve Shock Outcomes

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ² University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ³ Section of Cardiology, St Boniface Hospital, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiology and Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁵ Departments of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia and the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiology, St Michaels Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁹ Division of Cardiology, St Michaels Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Canadian VIGOUR Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Canadian VIGOUR Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Electronic address: sv9@ualberta.ca.