Hospital gives EKG devices to county fire department
Posted 11/02/09
Franklin Square Hospital Center has donated 12 electrocardiogram transmission devices to Baltimore County Fire Department.
The devices will enable paramedics to transmit important information to doctors while they transport the heart-attack patient to the hospital.
The devices can make a big difference in the time a patient receives potentially life-saving intervention, said Ming Tai, a spokeswoman for MedStar Health.
Franklin Square paid $3,816 for the devices and donated them to the fire department. The devices will be carried on career medic units from Essex, Middle River, Eastview, Golden Ring, Chase and Back River Neck and on volunteer medics from White Marsh, Rosedale, Kingsville and Middle River Volunteer Ambulance-Rescue.
“We’re reducing the patient’s door-to-balloon time, the time it takes to get life-saving circulation to the area of the heart that has been blocked,” said Kyrle Preis III, the fire department’s director of Emergency
Medical Services.
St. Joseph’s Medical Center purchased 15 of these devices about a year ago. With Franklin Square’s purchase, the scope of patients served by the devices will expand.
The devices will enable paramedics to transmit important information to doctors while they transport the heart-attack patient to the hospital.
The devices can make a big difference in the time a patient receives potentially life-saving intervention, said Ming Tai, a spokeswoman for MedStar Health.
Franklin Square paid $3,816 for the devices and donated them to the fire department. The devices will be carried on career medic units from Essex, Middle River, Eastview, Golden Ring, Chase and Back River Neck and on volunteer medics from White Marsh, Rosedale, Kingsville and Middle River Volunteer Ambulance-Rescue.
“We’re reducing the patient’s door-to-balloon time, the time it takes to get life-saving circulation to the area of the heart that has been blocked,” said Kyrle Preis III, the fire department’s director of Emergency
Medical Services.
St. Joseph’s Medical Center purchased 15 of these devices about a year ago. With Franklin Square’s purchase, the scope of patients served by the devices will expand.
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