Programmable button speeds triage process for faster heart attack care

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Programmable button speeds triage process for faster heart attack care

Shaving critical minutes off the time it takes to diagnose a heart attack and begin treatment could be as simple as the push of a button. Using a programmable button to page a phlebotomist for a blood draw reduced the time it took to identify patients suffering a heart attack by more than 11 minutes on average, in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session.

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