iPhone App Helps Reduce Door-To-Balloon Times In Cath Lab Patients

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - November 29, 2010

The latest version of the Lifenet web-based data network from Physio-Control includes a 510(k)-cleared iPhone application called Lifenet Consult that allows cardiologists to monitor chest-pain patients before they reach the hospital and alert hospital administrators that the cath lab will be needed.

iPhone App Helps Reduce Door-To-Balloon Times In Cath Lab Patients

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - November 29, 2010

The latest version of the Lifenet web-based data network from Physio-Control includes a 510(k)-cleared iPhone application called Lifenet Consult that allows cardiologists to monitor chest-pain patients before they reach the hospital and alert hospital administrators that the cath lab will be needed.

Earlier this month, the Medtronic subsidiary released its fifth-generation Lifenet 5.0 for emergency responders and hospitals. The product can transmit vital signs such as 12-lead electrocardiography data from ambulance monitors in the field to a hospital cath lab via the web-based network.

"This makes the entire chest-pain management more efficient," Cam Pollock, vice president of global marketing for Physio-Control, told "The Gray Sheet."

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