The editors of JAMA recognize the challenges, concerns, and frustration about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is affecting the care of
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 there s a patient coming, you have real-time GPS location so they know exactly how far the patient is out, they know when the patient arrives from the rig, and we know their clinical status or if their clinical status changes. So we re all prepared for them in the ED and then the cath lab.”