Philips cardiac care clinics set up in Manipal
29-Oct-15, Bangalore Mirror
Kasturba Medical College (KMC) and Philips Healthcare together launched Karnataka's first set of 'Chest Pain Clinics' in Manipal on Wednesday. These clinics will enable small hospitals and nursing homes in and around Manipal provide timely and quality emergency cardiac care to citizens and hence save more lives.
While cardiovascular diseases have quadrupled in the last 40 years, 50% of the affected patients arrive too late for appropriate treatment. If the patient receives treatment within one hour of the attack, called 'the golden hour', the possibility of saving their life increases manifold.
%20Kokilaben%20Dhirubhai%20Ambani.jpg "Philips cardiac care clinics set up in Manipal (c) Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani")
Image: Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani
The Chest Pain Clinics will be operated under the 'hub and spoke' model and will include five 'spoke' hospitals and one 'hub' hospital (KMC). Each Chest Pain Clinic will be a small healthcare facility equipped with Philips Efficia ECG-100 systems to wirelessly transmit ECG reports of patients in real time from the 'spokes' (Chest Pain clinics) to the 'hub' (KMC).
Once a patient is confirmed as suffering from a myocardial infarction, known as a heart attack, he/she is immediately transported via an ambulance from the Chest Pain Clinic to KMC, for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within the golden hour.