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Wireless system aids heart attack patients
NEWARK, N.J., May 21 (UPI) --
A U.S. study suggests using wireless technology to transmit electrocardiograms to physicians by smart phones can cut heart attack treatment time in half. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey study found a wireless system that enables on-call cardiologists to view full ECGs on "smart" phones can cut in half the time it takes to begin the treatment of heart attack with catheter-based techniques such as angioplasty and stenting. "In only 4 months, we went from being in the bottom 10 percent of hospitals in the time to treatment of heart attack to being in the top 10 percent of hospitals," said Dr. Vivek Dhruva, academic chief fellow in the university's cardiology division. In 2005 it took an average 61 minutes just to notify a cardiologist a patient with a heart attack had arrived at the emergency room -- making it virtually impossible to begin catheter-based treatment within the optimal 90 minutes. Use of the wireless system cut the door-to-intervention time to only 73 minutes. The research was honored as the best abstract presented earlier this month in Orlando, Fla., during a meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.
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