June 19, 2008
Thanks to a partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care, BC Ambulance Service is the first Emergency Medical Services agency in the country to use a new type of ECG transmission to alert emergency physicians of incoming patients suffering from ST-elevation Myocardial Infarct, the most time critical type of heart attack.
In May 2008, BCAS Advanced Life Support (ALS) paramedics in Vancouver began using a modem to send the cardiogram of STEMI patients from the scene directly to the receiving emergency department. Thanks to this new piece of technology, paramedics and emergency room physicians now have the ability to share vital patient information while paramedics are en-route to the hospital.
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