By Sheena McFarland
The Salt Lake Tribune
PIONEER VALLEY, Utah — When having a heart attack, every second is crucial. Emergency medical service crews rushing patients to Jordan Valley Medical Center or Pioneer Valley Hospital use technology that can help save critical minutes — and lives.
The ambulance crews are able to transmit information from an EKG to the hospitals, alerting a cardiac team to meet them upon their arrival.
Already, for the most lethal heart attacks, the Pioneer Valley response time from having a patient come through the doors to having a stent put in a blocked artery is 60 minutes — 30 minutes faster than the national benchmark.
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