Nebraska is investing in saving the lives of rural heart-attack victims. The Midwest Affiliate of the American Heart Association announced Tuesday a $5.3 million initiative called Mission: Lifeline that "will update the equipment in rural ambulances to help emergency
responders better identify and triage a severe type of heart attack
known as ST-elevated myocardial infarction," Shelby Fleig reports for the Omaha World-Herald. "The hope is that by identifying this type of heart attack more quickly,
patients can be taken to the nearest medical facility ready to perform a
coronary angioplasty, the ideal treatment for this kind of attack, the
association said."
Tom Appleget, director of invasive cardiology at Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, told Fleig, “Some of these volunteer squads can’t afford some of the systems. This allows them to own the equipment and transmit the EKG to a physician from the field and bypass a hospital that doesn’t have a (catheterization) lab.” (Read more)
Every year 5,000 Nebraskans die of heart failure, reports KETV in Omaha. The new equipment is available in most urban areas and some rural ones, such as Beatrice, a town of 12,000 located in the southeastern corner. Already in Beatrice, the equipment has helped save three lives, said Fire Chief Brian Daake. Michael Schnieders, CEO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, told KETV, “This is a great for rural health care in Nebraska, especially for heart patients, their love ones and their family members." (Read more)
Tom Appleget, director of invasive cardiology at Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, told Fleig, “Some of these volunteer squads can’t afford some of the systems. This allows them to own the equipment and transmit the EKG to a physician from the field and bypass a hospital that doesn’t have a (catheterization) lab.” (Read more)
Every year 5,000 Nebraskans die of heart failure, reports KETV in Omaha. The new equipment is available in most urban areas and some rural ones, such as Beatrice, a town of 12,000 located in the southeastern corner. Already in Beatrice, the equipment has helped save three lives, said Fire Chief Brian Daake. Michael Schnieders, CEO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, told KETV, “This is a great for rural health care in Nebraska, especially for heart patients, their love ones and their family members." (Read more)
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