St. Elizabeth - A Cincinnati-area health care system significantly cut down its time to treatment for cardiac cases using Pulsara.
St. Elizabeth - A Cincinnati-area health care system significantly cut down its time to treatment for cardiac cases using Pulsara.
2 PagesA Cincinnati-area health care system significantly cut down its time to treatment for cardiac cases using Pulsara. BACKGROUND St. Elizabeth Healthcare, based in Edgewood, Kentucky, serves a population of more than 400,000 across the Greater Cincinnati area, stretching from Northern Kentucky to Indiana and Ohio. St. Elizabeth is sponsored by the Diocese of Covington and is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. PROBLEM Organizing a high-level response team for cardiac care is difficult. The process is typically akin to the game of telephone, with multi- ple calls and spoken reports going to and from the life squad, the ED, the physician on call, individual members of the cath team, room schedulers and the set-up team. At St. Elizabeth, like most health systems in the U.S., ther
