Ambulance electrocardiogram (ECG) training cuts cardiac admission time
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Training paramedics to perform and interpret ECGs can cut an hour from the time heart attack patients wait for treatment. In an experimental scheme, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary (UK) trained 26 paramedics in the local ambulance service to use an ECG and gave them the authority to make admissions to the hospital's coronary care unit.