STEMI App Lowers Time to Treatment Across Regional Health System
May 07, 2021 The implementation of a smartphone-based application to aid with communication about STEMI patients coming in from the field has enabled one large health system to drop its EMS-to-balloon time by 10 minutes, according to a new study. “With this device you can send text, pictures, video, vitals, and it not only goes to the ED but a whole system,” senior researcher Amir Lofti, MD (Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA), told TCTMD. “All that information is communicated to a group of people that is preselected and therefore everybody is on the same page. Everybody knows the...
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