Manipal :
With an aim to save lives from cardiovascular diseases, Manipal Hospital launched Karnataka’s first ‘Chest Pain Clinics’ (CPC) in the Udpui district, on Wednesday.
To be operated under the ‘hub and spoke’ model, this initiative will include five ‘spoke’ hospitals (Chest Pain Clinics), one ‘hub’ hospital (KMC Manipal) and will reach out to thousands of people in the district, said Dr Ranjan Shetty, Head of the Department for Cardiology at KMC-Manipal at press conference.
Explaining how CPC are difficult from current health care services related to cardiovascular diseases, Ranjan said these clinics will enable small hospitals and nursing homes in and around Manipal to provide timely and quality emergency cardiac care to citizens and save more lives. Each Clinic will be a small healthcare facility equipped with Philips EfficiaECG-100 systems to wirelessly transmit ECG reports of patients in real time from the ‘spokes’ to the ‘hub’.
The report is transmitted to expert doctors in hub swiftly and team immediately analyzes condition of the patient and suggest further treatment if needed. “Once a patient is confirmed as suffering from a Myocardial Infarction, known as a Heart Attack, he/she is immediately transported via an ambulance from Clinic to hub, for primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) within the golden hour. While doctors at the hub keep everything ready for treatment and it saves times as well patient,” he pointed out.
He said that usually when a person has heart complications, he/she has to go a clinic equipped with electrocardiogram (ECG), after the reports consult doctor and undergo treatment. While new system will save all such procedure and aim to provide quick and timely health care service.
Philips Healthcare will support KMC with exhaustive training for the staff, recording and storing all ECG related data, developing protocols and periodic review of data, said Srinivas Prasad, CEO, Philips Innovation Campus.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Mangaluru / by Kevin Mendonsa, TNN / October 28th, 2015