CRT-100.02 Drug Eluting Stents Should Be the Standard of Care in STEMI Patients: A Review From the National In-patient Sample

From 2007 through 2013, bare metal stents (BMS) were the guidelines recommended option for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We sought to analyze trends and in-hospital outcomes of patients treated with BMS or drug eluting stents (DES) during primary angioplasty for ST segment elevation