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Wireless medical data
Wireless Transmission of ECGs Saves Lives. "While the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommend that heart attack patients have their arteries opened within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital, the NorthEast Medical Center team was able to cut that time to 50 minutes. The national average is about 100 minutes, the researchers said. "We found that the pre-hospital wireless transmission of an ECG directly to a cardiologist's hand-device significantly reduced the time," said the lead researcher, George Adams, M.D. "When the cardiologist can directly see an ECG, it clarifies the decision to mobilize all the personnel necessary for the cath lab to be ready to go when the patient arrives.""
EWeek
Posted by Richard on April 6, 2006 08:28 AM