Cardiac Alert

Please Remember...

If you have an illness or injury that you believe is life threatening, or that will seriously harm you within 12 to 24 hours without a doctor's care, you should call 9-1-1- or go to the nearest emergency room.

Comprehensive Emergency Care for Heart Attack Patients

When it comes to a heart attack, time is muscle. The more time the heart is deprived of blood and oxygen, the more muscle tissue dies. Rose's Cardiac Alert program provides heart attack patients the medical care they need as fast as possible.

By partnering with community emergency medical services (EMS)—often the first point of contact for someone who may be experiencing a heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI)—necessary treatment to save the heart muscle can begin before the patient even reaches the hospital.

How Cardiac Alert Works

Once the paramedic has initiated a cardiac alert, Rose's Cardiac Alert Team consisting of emergency medicine doctors, the cardiac cath lab team and a cardiologist assemble. The second the patient arrives at the hospital, he or she is taken directly to the cardiac cath lab. The goal here is to open up blocked arteries as quickly as possible. The team is ready 24/7 and prides themselves on beating the national average of 90 minutes to open clogged coronary vessels.

Rose greatly values its relationships with our community EMS partners who make the Cardiac Alert program successful. Through this program we are able to better serve our community by improving care and saving lives.

Learn More: Heart and Vascular Care at Rose.

Cardiac Alert System

In this video, Dr. Don Lefkowits, Director of the Rose Medical Emergency Department, explains how the cardiac alert system works, and why it helps save heart attack patients lives.

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