GUANGZHOU, China, March 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Guangzhou
General Hospital of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) made a landmark
announcement that the first Chinese regional military and
civilian coordinated Chest Pain Rescue Network using IVT mobile
health (mHealth) system is now in full operation. This network
consists of a Chest Pain Rescue Center and a Remote
Electrocardiograph (ECG) Diagnostic Center run by Guangzhou General
Hospital of PLA, Guangzhou Civilian Emergency Center (120), several
regional civilian hospitals and community health service centers in
Guangzhou and its vicinity. The network will gradually enlarge its
coverage to the whole Pearl River Delta in China.
Professor Weiyi Qin, the director of Chest Pain Center, said,
“Today, we historically rewrite the Chinese chest pain rescue
clinical pathway; we dramatically shorten the chest pain
pre-hospital rescue time by 30 minutes on average, achieving 41
minutes of the door to balloon open time (D2B), which is half of
the international standard time (90 minutes); and we invent a new
model of establishing the chest pain rescue network with
collaborations between military and civilian hospitals in
China!”
The coordination of the Chest Pain Rescue Network is achieved by
using IVT mHealth system. Vital signs on each site are collected by
a 12-leads ECG monitor, an arm-based blood pressure meter, an
oximeter, and a glucose meter, all wirelessly connected to a
medical tablet PC, and transmitted via 3G network in real time to
the on-line Personal E-Health Record in the Chest Pain Rescue
Center, where information is shared by all parties in the
Chest Pain Rescue Network. These medical devices are small and can
be hand carried to any rescue site for military and civilian
usage.
Experts in the Chest Pain Rescue Center could provide real time
support to staff on the remote rescue site, and activate a rescue
coordination support system in IVT mHealth system, with jus
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