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...Simple blood tests can identify which patients with acute chest pain are likely to die from a heart attack. The tests detect proteins called cardiac troponins that are released by damaged heart muscle. Results are available in minutes, allowing doctors time to intervene...
...warning: "Patients, beware! You will be at risk when hospitals put you in the hands of a technician. If the person caring for you does not have R.N. after his or her name, leave that hospital immediately!" Kranstover, 41, has been a nurse for 11 years, and was a cardiac nurse at a San Diego hospital the night a technician allowed a patient who had just suffered a heart attack to get out of bed and smoke a cigarette. "All of a sudden the patient's heart monitor showed ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening condition in which...
...private family practice for 34 years, Dugan knows firsthand that most people die from cardiac arrest before they reach the hospital. With the help of his wife and four children, he began Start-a-Heart Save-a-Heart, a community prevention-and-education program, in which 42,500 volunteers have become certified in CPR since 1978. "Anyone who can read can learn CPR," says Dugan. "Life is precious, and CPR and prevention save precious lives...
Rosen, 30, is a cool customer, not the type to go into cardiac arrest when his mail server crashes. He is the co-founder of Panix, the oldest and best-known Internet service provider in Manhattan. Years before the Net became a cereal-box buzz word, Rosen would let people connect to Panix free, or for only a few dollars a month, just because--well, because that was the culture of the time. Rosen has handled plenty of mail outages, so on this occasion he simply rolled up his sleeves and set to work, fingers clacking out a flamenco...
...wrist, he was able to determine that it had fallen from a normal 80 beats a minute to 38 by placing a digital pulse monitor the size of a lemon on the woman's finger. He then touched her chest with a portable EKG machine and analyzed her cardiac rhythms. Had there been any indication that she was suffering a heart attack, Bayne would immediately have called 911. When he determined that wasn't the case, he decided to perform a battery of blood tests...