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EMS-activated cath lab calls
MINNEAPOLIS, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- When Hennepin County Medical Center
(HCMC) paramedics take heart attack patients to HCMC, they are using a new
protocol that helps to stop heart attacks faster than ever before. Heart
attack treatment is all a matter of time, and by making the same life-saving
decisions a physician would make -- immediately at the scene of the event --
HCMC and their paramedics have cut that time dramatically. Usually, after a
patient with heart attack symptoms is assessed at the scene with an EKG, that
EKG is handed off to the physician upon arrival at the ER or, less commonly,
transmitted via cell phone/Bluetooth technology to the hospital. In both
cases, the physician waits for the EKG results and makes the decision whether
or not to activate the cardiac catheterization lab.
Read more here...
MINNEAPOLIS, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- When Hennepin County Medical Center
(HCMC) paramedics take heart attack patients to HCMC, they are using a new
protocol that helps to stop heart attacks faster than ever before. Heart
attack treatment is all a matter of time, and by making the same life-saving
decisions a physician would make -- immediately at the scene of the event --
HCMC and their paramedics have cut that time dramatically. Usually, after a
patient with heart attack symptoms is assessed at the scene with an EKG, that
EKG is handed off to the physician upon arrival at the ER or, less commonly,
transmitted via cell phone/Bluetooth technology to the hospital. In both
cases, the physician waits for the EKG results and makes the decision whether
or not to activate the cardiac catheterization lab.
Read more here...
Right now when people hear "Bluetooth" they think "Dweeb speeding down Hwy 101 in his BMW 540i with one of them damn Bluetooth headsets stuck in his ear like he's waiting for a call from **** Cheney."
