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Florida Hospitals to get Heart Data from Ambulances via Bluetooth
Colleagues,
As reported in FloridaToday.Com ... Brevard County Fire-Rescue is implementing Bluetooth technology to transmit electrocardiogram readings from cardiac patients in the field to hospitals so doctors are better prepared to treat them.
In about three or four months, more than 93 units, including 40 fire-rescue ambulances, will be equipped with the new technology for rapid transmission of EKG readings...
... It will cost about $155,000 to equip ambulances for the new technology, and the entire cost is funded by a Florida Department of Health grant, including server and modem costs for the next five years. Hospitals will set up receiving centers to receive the EKG readings...
... Officials said it will help in better identifying a STEMI, which stands for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, the deadliest kind of heart attack, which results from a total blockage of a coronary artery. A STEMI produces a characteristic type of electrical wave that can be seen on an EKG.
The sooner a STEMI alert is declared, the sooner a catheterization lab can be activated. Cath labs are responsible for procedures such as angioplasty and stenting...
... the goal is to reduce "door-to-balloon time" for cardiac patients ... "Door-to-balloon time" refers to the time for a heart attack patient to have angioplasty started after he or she arrives at the hospital ... About a year ago, Osceola County Fire-Rescue implemented wireless transmissions of EKG readings to hospitals. Jeff Garringer, who heads emergency medical services for Osceola County Fire-Rescue, said the door-to-cath lab time has decreased by half for heart attack patients ...
Read on at: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091129/NEWS01/911290319/1006/...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in FloridaToday.Com ... Brevard County Fire-Rescue is implementing Bluetooth technology to transmit electrocardiogram readings from cardiac patients in the field to hospitals so doctors are better prepared to treat them.
In about three or four months, more than 93 units, including 40 fire-rescue ambulances, will be equipped with the new technology for rapid transmission of EKG readings...
... It will cost about $155,000 to equip ambulances for the new technology, and the entire cost is funded by a Florida Department of Health grant, including server and modem costs for the next five years. Hospitals will set up receiving centers to receive the EKG readings...
... Officials said it will help in better identifying a STEMI, which stands for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, the deadliest kind of heart attack, which results from a total blockage of a coronary artery. A STEMI produces a characteristic type of electrical wave that can be seen on an EKG.
The sooner a STEMI alert is declared, the sooner a catheterization lab can be activated. Cath labs are responsible for procedures such as angioplasty and stenting...
... the goal is to reduce "door-to-balloon time" for cardiac patients ... "Door-to-balloon time" refers to the time for a heart attack patient to have angioplasty started after he or she arrives at the hospital ... About a year ago, Osceola County Fire-Rescue implemented wireless transmissions of EKG readings to hospitals. Jeff Garringer, who heads emergency medical services for Osceola County Fire-Rescue, said the door-to-cath lab time has decreased by half for heart attack patients ...
Read on at: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091129/NEWS01/911290319/1006/...
ENJOY!
CC
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