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Minnesota Paramedics to Test Heart Device
Updated: 07-28-2005 02:32:36 PM
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St. Paul Pioneer Press Distributed by the Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- For a clinical trial, paramedics in St. Paul and Minneapolis will be testing experimental suction devices on heart attack patients without their prior consent.
While informed consent is a staple of most medical research, exceptions are allowed when the consent impedes potentially lifesaving research that can't be completed any other way.
Hospital and emergency medicine leaders believe the devices will increase the number of survivors of heart attacks.
The tests will begin in September in St. Paul, Minneapolis and three other cities across the country.
''The survival rate from cardiac arrest has remained stagnant for the last 40 years,'' said Dr. Keith Lurie, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota who co-invented the device. Lurie formed Advanced Circulatory Systems Inc., an Eden Prairie company that now makes the two devices that will be tested in the study.
One is the ResQPump, which works somewhat like a household plunger and increases blood flow by manipulating the chest cavity.
The other is the ResQPod, which fits atop the device that paramedics place over a patient's mouth during CPR. The pod expedites the flow of blood into the lungs by regulating how oxygen is exhaled and inhaled during resuscitation.
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Updated: 07-28-2005 02:32:36 PM
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St. Paul Pioneer Press Distributed by the Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- For a clinical trial, paramedics in St. Paul and Minneapolis will be testing experimental suction devices on heart attack patients without their prior consent.
While informed consent is a staple of most medical research, exceptions are allowed when the consent impedes potentially lifesaving research that can't be completed any other way.
Hospital and emergency medicine leaders believe the devices will increase the number of survivors of heart attacks.
The tests will begin in September in St. Paul, Minneapolis and three other cities across the country.
''The survival rate from cardiac arrest has remained stagnant for the last 40 years,'' said Dr. Keith Lurie, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota who co-invented the device. Lurie formed Advanced Circulatory Systems Inc., an Eden Prairie company that now makes the two devices that will be tested in the study.
One is the ResQPump, which works somewhat like a household plunger and increases blood flow by manipulating the chest cavity.
The other is the ResQPod, which fits atop the device that paramedics place over a patient's mouth during CPR. The pod expedites the flow of blood into the lungs by regulating how oxygen is exhaled and inhaled during resuscitation.
Rest HERE: Clicky