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Prepared to Save Lives: Advanced Emergency Heart Care
When every minute counts, EMS crews are ready. Equipped with portable defibrillators and cardiac monitors, emergency responders often can diagnose and begin treatment for a heart attack soon after arrival.
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CPR GUIDELINES
The American Heart Association says use:
30 chest compressions to every two rescue breaths for all adults, children and infants (except newborns).
The primary reason for doing CPR is to force blood through the body as much as possible so that patients avoid permanent damage to their heart muscle or brain after a heart attack.
St. Anthony’s recently donated portable defibrillators to several regional EMS districts. The new units allow EMS crews to add external pacemakers and advanced cardiac monitoring, as well as the ability to transmit all of the information directly to a hospital prior to a patient arriving in the Emergency Department.
Transmitting 12 different views of heart activity, emergency room physicians are alerted when heart damage is actually occurring so that a cardiac team is ready and waiting when the patient arrives. That means more lives are saved!
Participating EMS Districts
EMS agencies under medical direction of St. Anthony’s that have ability to transmit EKGs from the field:
- Afton Fire-Protection District*
- Fenton Fire Protection District
- Lemay Fire Protection District*
- Mehlville Fire Protection District*
- North Jefferson County Ambulance District*
- Rock Community Fire Protection District
- Rock Township Ambulance District
- Shrewsbury Fire Protection District*
* Agencies receiving donated defibrillators from St. Anthony’s.
For information or a physician referral, please call 800-554-9550 or visit our online physician referral.
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