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Physician tells Georgia House committee Office of Cardiac Care is underfunded and urges support for rural hospital certification
Summary
A physician briefing to the Georgia House Health Committee said state cardiac protocols have reduced deaths but that the Office of Cardiac Care is underfunded, leaving rural hospitals less able to take part in time-sensitive emergency networks.
A physician told the Georgia House Health Committee that Georgia’s Office of Cardiac Care has helped lower deaths from time-sensitive cardiac emergencies but lacks funding to expand coverage to smaller, rural hospitals.
The presenter said the state has organized hospitals into level 1, 2 and 3 centers, with 19 level 1 hospitals, 19 level 2 hospitals and 10 level 3 hospitals; many hospitals are still pending certification. The presenter described protocols such as out-of-hospital resuscitation, targeted temperature management and use of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for select patients, and said those protocols, combined with pre-hospital activation, have reduced mortality for STEMI, out-of-hospital…
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