BREAKING NEWS
New plan could help heart attack patients
Posted: 06/05/2012
More than one million Americans will suffer a heart attack this year.
In some cases, if you can get to surgery within 90 minutes, you’ve cut your chance of dying in half. But thousands don’t make it in time.
Now one state is showing the nation how it can be changed.
Duke University Medical Center organized 119 hospitals in North Carolina to try and increase survival chances.
The plan is to have an EKG reader on the ambulance, so after the patient calls 911 and is on the ambulance, the crew can read and send heart rhythms to the hospital before they even get there.
This allows doctors to make some sort of diagnosis before the patient even gets to the hospital.
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