Firemedics using new high-tech tool
16.08.09
By Amanda Harnocz
Newsman
Tallmadge -- Tallmadge is one of the first suburban Summit County cities to launch a new Web-based system so paramedics can diagnose heart attacks and send advice to the hospital before the patient arrives.
Tallmadge Firemedic Todd Beaty explained the LIFENET System is being occupied by the Akron Fire Department and that Tallmadge was one of the first communities in Northeast Ohio to use it.
Tallmadge Firemedic Andy Miller said Conceal and Brimfield are starting to incorporate the new system, too.
LIFENET, which transfers report from the ambulance to the hospital via wireless Internet, was designed to assist diagnose and treat acute heart attacks, reducing the perpetually a patient needs to reach the heart-muscle provident cardiac catheterization lab, Beaty said.
Beaty said the system has been familiar by the department for about seven weeks and the entire paramedic cane has been trained to use it.
Miller said before the new system, a heart monitor was fastened to a cell phone to transfer the information to the hospital.
Source: Tallmadge Express