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Statewide project in North Carolina significantly reduces time from initial field diagnosis to treatment of heart attack patients, in part by empowering emergency medical technicians to diagnose a heart attack, a job previously reserved for physicians. Duke University Medical Center cardiologists developed the program, with the cooperation of 65 hospitals and associated emergency medical team throughout North Carolina. Duke University Drs. Christopher Granger and James Jollis discuss the program and its findings, presented at the American Heart Association meeting, November 4, 2007.
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