Tools: ED Clinical Process
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Tool / Best Practice (Alphabetical order)
Contributing Hospital / Description
Cardiac
Alert Protocol (Categories: ED
Clinical Process)
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center - Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
works with EMS to quickly identify heart attack patients so that care is
not delayed once the patient arrives in the ED.
Code Heart Process (Categories: ED
Clinical Process)
Memorial Regional Hospital - A new procedure has helped Memorial
Regional Hospital meet national standards for care in heart attack patients.
ECG Transmission (Categories: ED
Clinical Process)
Duke University Hospital - Researchers at Duke University Hospital
found that they could reduce time to treatment for heart attack patients
by having EMTs wirelessly send ECG directly to cardiologists from the ambulance.







