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Houston Northwest Medical Center highlighted at forum
By OBSERVER STAFF REPORTS
Medical minds met in New Orleans for the eighth annual American Heart Association’s Scientific Forum, and an abstract produced by members from Houston Northwest Medical Center on their streamlined service from the Cypress Creek EMS was chosen for a presentation.
The abstract showed how the hospital was able to work with paramedics to reduce the time it takes to restore blood once the patient enters the emergency room door to the time a balloon stint is implanted well below the American Heart Association’s standard recommended time of less than 90 minutes.
Equally as important, the presentation illustrated how with specific protocols in place, a hospital and paramedic team can work together to reduce the blood flow restriction time from E2B time – the time paramedics or EMS arrive on the scene to the time blood flow is restored at the hospital with a balloon stint.
At Houston Northwest Medical Center the average E2B time is 87 minutes. From that finding, the team concluded that E2B time should be the new measure for quality care within communities.
“The clinical relationship between medics at Cypress Creek EMS, physicians and hospital staff enabled the development of a special protocol designed to reduce the amount of damage to heart muscle by treating patients from the time paramedics arrive on the seen to an average of 87 minutes,” said Catherine Bissell, Chest Pain Center coordinator. “We are very excited to be able to share our successful outcomes with other health care providers at the Scientific Forum.”
The forum is designed to focus on new and developing opportunities, initiatives, projects, policies and research related to improving the quality of care for persons with or at risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke.
With the life-saving findings presented, the hospital’s abstract was enlightening to the clinicians, medical staff and policymakers from around the country who attended the forum.
The abstract showed how the hospital was able to work with paramedics to reduce the time it takes to restore blood once the patient enters the emergency room door to the time a balloon stint is implanted well below the American Heart Association’s standard recommended time of less than 90 minutes.
Equally as important, the presentation illustrated how with specific protocols in place, a hospital and paramedic team can work together to reduce the blood flow restriction time from E2B time – the time paramedics or EMS arrive on the scene to the time blood flow is restored at the hospital with a balloon stint.
At Houston Northwest Medical Center the average E2B time is 87 minutes. From that finding, the team concluded that E2B time should be the new measure for quality care within communities.
“The clinical relationship between medics at Cypress Creek EMS, physicians and hospital staff enabled the development of a special protocol designed to reduce the amount of damage to heart muscle by treating patients from the time paramedics arrive on the seen to an average of 87 minutes,” said Catherine Bissell, Chest Pain Center coordinator. “We are very excited to be able to share our successful outcomes with other health care providers at the Scientific Forum.”
The forum is designed to focus on new and developing opportunities, initiatives, projects, policies and research related to improving the quality of care for persons with or at risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke.
With the life-saving findings presented, the hospital’s abstract was enlightening to the clinicians, medical staff and policymakers from around the country who attended the forum.
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