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ALBANY, N.Y. — To the untrained eye, they may not look like much more than cool new gadgets, but to medical professionals, the latest and greatest medical technology can save lives. Emergency medical workers are learning about how they can incorporate the newest devices into everyday practices to keep you alive.
It’s one of the most common calls Emergency workers receive. A patient is having a heart attack and needs CPR. “With manual CPR,” says Beverly Kretz, “If you do it perfectly, you get 10-20% blood flow to the heart and 30-40% to the brain and that’s if you do it perfectly, consistently. With autopulse, you get 100% blood flow during a cariac arrest.”
Making the chances of survival for a patient much greater, and giving the one paramedic a chance to tend to other problems with the patient, and hold on for safety as well.
“For some paramedics especially in rural areas where they are short-handed,” said Kretz, “this is the equivalent of the person.”
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