A STEMI alert system to help patients and reduce door-to-balloon times
Despite great advances in care, heart attack remains a leading killer. Every year, half a million Americans experience ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). One-third of them die within 24 hours of onset if not treated with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).
The reality is that fewer than 25 percent of U.S. hospitals have the ability to perform PCI. And in hospitals with cath labs, less than 40 percent of patients receive PCI within the 90-minute door-to-balloon time recommended by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA). If door-to-balloon time stretches from 90 to 120 minutes, mortality for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) has been shown to increase 40 percent.
Clearly, the key to improving outcomes for those patients is identifying STEMI and providing lifesaving PCI treatment as soon as possible. This requires the ability to quickly share ECG data and alert the people who need to know—whether it’s from paramedics in the field to a hospital Emergency Department, between departments or physicians within the same facility, or from one hospital to another to facilitate patient transfer.
The LIFENET STEMI Management Solution from Physio-Control lets you create an early warning system for STEMI patients and share critical information about them. While care teams focus on patients, the STEMI Management Solution securely delivers ECG data when and where it’s needed, linking prehospital, emergency room, and PCI treatment teams.
The first web-based system of its kind, our STEMI Management Solution allows patient care teams to quickly decide where to send the STEMI patient for the appropriate care—mobilizing the cardiac catheterization lab, freeing up the emergency department, enabling the EMS team to move on quickly to their next case, and reducing false-positive cath lab activations.
Physio-Control offers the LIFENET STEMI Management Solution in a variety of options and term lengths, with implementation services to help smooth your way to a regional approach to STEMI care.
Solutions for Hospitals
Improving outcomes for STEMI Patients
Receiving diagnostic-quality 12-lead ECGs is just the start. The LIFENET STEMI Management Solution allows care teams to alert one another to a suspected STEMI patient, confirm STEMI, easily share data so patients are routed to PCI facilities, mobilize the cath lab when appropriate, and avoid false positive cath lab activations.
A complete Web-based STEMI management solution, our system requires no dedicated equipment, servers or maintenance from your IT department. Simply install the software on existing computers, set your preferences, and you are ready to take a community approach to STEMI patient management.
Solutions for EMS
You tend to the patient, we worry about the data
EMS work is often like a relay race, where paramedics take the initial life-saving steps, then hand off the cardiac patient to hospital physicians. An early, pre-medicated 12-lead ECG from EMS is the kick-off to the STEMI alerting process.
With STEMI, we know the crucial next steps are stent placement or angioplasty—within 90 minutes of reaching the hospital.
Transmitting diagnostic quality ECGs from the field using the LIFENET STEMI Management Solution helps get you rolling to the right facility ASAP. Quickly confirming STEMI diagnosis means patients who need it are routed immediately to PCI centers. Patient ECG data arrives before you do, so the hospital team is ready to provide lifesaving treatment.
How LIFENET technology can help you
The LIFENET STEMI Management Solution is offered as a subscription service providing you the simplest access to a comprehensive STEMI Management System. There are no servers to install, no hosting to manage, no maintenance to worry about. Through this program we provide you access to our best-in-class systems, data centers, and technology so that you can focus on your job.
For more information on how the LIFENET STEMI Management Solution can help you equip STEMI Alert Teams, improve data transmission success, and STEMI patient management strategies, please talk to your local sales rep or connect with one of our Medical Informatics specialists here.