Paramedics can speed treatment for severe heart attacks with use of ECGs
Friday, July 20, 2012 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
A new program that trains emergency medical service technicians to read electrocardiograms so that they can evaluate patients with chest pain, and expedite treatment for the severe heart condition known as ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, a serious form of heart attack, has excellent results and should become the standard of care, according to two new studies.