The American Heart Association announced a new demonstration project to reduce the time from heart attack to treatment.
The Regional Systems of Care Demonstration Project-Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator program, which was designed by cardiologists at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., will consist of leaders from 20 regions, including New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Antonio and Phoenix.
The goal is to create coordinated, regional systems of care to treat heart attack patients as quickly as possible. The demonstration project team will work with cardiologists, emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and paramedics from each region to help implement coordinated, standardized heart attack treatment programs.
The project promotes a new standard of care in which paramedics diagnose heart attacks in the field and notify hospitals to mobilize interventional cardiology teams. This practice enables the paramedics to transport patients directly to a prepared cath lab for their arteries to be opened. In contrast to current standard guidelines, in which hospitals are expected to treat a heart attack patient within 90 minutes from the time he or she enters the hospital, hospitals will be timed from the point an ambulance reaches a heart attack patient.
The two-year demonstration project expands the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline program, which helps create systems of care for treating heart attacks, and Duke's statewide Reperfusion of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Carolina Emergency Departments program.
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The Regional Systems of Care Demonstration Project-Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator program, which was designed by cardiologists at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., will consist of leaders from 20 regions, including New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Antonio and Phoenix.
The goal is to create coordinated, regional systems of care to treat heart attack patients as quickly as possible. The demonstration project team will work with cardiologists, emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and paramedics from each region to help implement coordinated, standardized heart attack treatment programs.
The project promotes a new standard of care in which paramedics diagnose heart attacks in the field and notify hospitals to mobilize interventional cardiology teams. This practice enables the paramedics to transport patients directly to a prepared cath lab for their arteries to be opened. In contrast to current standard guidelines, in which hospitals are expected to treat a heart attack patient within 90 minutes from the time he or she enters the hospital, hospitals will be timed from the point an ambulance reaches a heart attack patient.
The two-year demonstration project expands the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline program, which helps create systems of care for treating heart attacks, and Duke's statewide Reperfusion of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Carolina Emergency Departments program.
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