Heart attacks do not take place as per a timetable. So how do patients make through if they undergo a heart attack while most of the cardiologists are away at research conferences or academic meetings? The answer relies on the kind of heart attack, as per to new study of Harvard Medical School.

As per new study from Harvard Medical School, posted last week in the Journal of the American Heart Association, sufferers of heart attack who get therapy at the time when skilled cardiologists are away at research meetings are more expected to stay alive in the month post their heart attack in comparison to patients getting curative measures at the normal days in the weeks.

The general advantage in survival was sufficiently considerable to receive the attention of lead author of the study, physician-scientists Anupam Jena.

“Most of the medical interventions supply no mortality advantage, and the fact that mortality really falls for patients suffering from heart attack at the time of these conference period lifts significant queries about how care may fluctuate at these times,” claimed Jena, who is a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School for Health Care Policy, to the media in an interview.

This is not the initial time Jena has dealt with this type of scientific question. In 2015 Jena and associates set out to respond this query, hoping that they might find no alteration if the hospitals had suffice talented doctors to work in place of the cardiologists who were not present due to big national research conferences, or a slight increment in mortality, if staffing obstacles caused the quantity or quality of care to drop.

Jena claimed he was shocked to discover in the first research that patients improved health for acute cardiovascular situations such as heart failure and cardiac arrest.