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Many People Could Recover From Heart Attacks If They Got Help Faster.
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Written by Steve Broussard   

Paramedics have new technology that can warn emergency rooms of the help that is needed before the ambulance arrives.

 

 


To understand how a patient suffering from chest pain would be treated, I became a victim for this story.

 

Paramedics arrived on the scene......with portable equipment.....emergency medical technician Kevin Lamprecht was checking my vital signs......blood pressure and pulse....while Bill Curlee was asking medical history questions...

 

One question is do I have any allergies....important information in treatment.

 

The fact is I don't have any chest pain......but I am curious about new technology done inside the ambulance.

 

As the IV is being set up.....Bill Curlee is attending to me....

 

My chest is shaved to hook up a Stemi that will measure my heart rate

 

"It's going to report a 12 lead EKG and send it like a regular fax thru blue tooth from this monitor."> says Kevin Lemprecht, EMT

 

In the mean time, hospital crews are given a heads up the medical condition, by the read out taken in the ambulance.

 

When I arrive in the emergency room of Citizens Medical Center......immediately a mobile x-ray machine is set up examine my chest.

 

From the emergency room, we move to the Cauterization heart lab, where an IV die is injected.

 

Equipment will be able to pick up any blockage....and technicians will change out that vessel....put a wire in.....a stint or a balloon to get that blood flowing to the heart muscle again.

 

The camera will pick up any blockage....technicians will change out that vessel

 

As a result of the Stemi Mobile Unit Electrocardiogram saves lives.

 

Saving time in the treatment of someone suffering from a heart attack.