Recent email came to Tom about our latest episode. “Good morning Tom, I just came across the interview you did with my friends in the county north of me (Watertown Fire and Recue ) in Watertown, South Dakota, great interview and Thank You for taking the time to come to South Dakota. Mission Lifeline is [...]
The Premiere of Episode One – Sioux Falls
It is Thursday May 1st in Baltimore, MD and we are at the Baltimore convention center where there was a standing room only crowd there to watch the premiere of Code STEMI. My first gut reaction was telling me that here it is the chance to show that when you combine the human stories with [...]
News Release: American Heart Association
The American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline program is featured on the First Responder Network’s new WebTV series, “Code STEMI”. The series, launched this month, highlights the passion of the people involved in Mission: Lifeline and the work they do to save the lives of heart attack patients. Additional footage, interviews with Mission: Lifeline staff and [...]
Code STEMI to premier Thursday at EMS Today 2012
At long last the premier episode of the Code STEMI Web Series is set to make its debut at EMS Today 2012 in Baltimore on Thursday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m. at the Physio-Control booth (#2907)! This is the rural episode that features the emerging system of care in South Dakota and the work of [...]
Top 10 Advancements in Cardiovascular & Stroke in 2011
The AHA came out with the Top 10 here, well it is no surprise that the recognition and treatment of STEMI is one of them. As we dive deeper and deeper into additional systems that have been working hard to reduce symptom onset to balloon times it will be a great day in America if [...]
Supporting #WearRedDay for Women’s Health
Heart health goes for everyone especially when you consider those who don’t exhibit the traditional signs and symptoms of men… Like women don’t… Are you wearing RED today?
Regional Approach to Cardiovascular Emergency – RACE
An important first step in getting to know how STEMI Systems of care work from the fundamentals of getting along to the data sets that are required to measure there is a regional approach to it all designed by the folks in North Carolina. This is a great resource for anyone looking to get better [...]
Season One: Principle photography has ended
As I write this update for our audience I am reminded just how quick this came and went. We visited Orlando Florida, Sioux Falls South Dakota and finally Dearborn Michigan. The goal of this initial season was to share what we learned about two very different STEMI systems and how they are doing it. What [...]
Share your #CodeSTEMI Story
Inspired by Chris Cooper on twitter (@TheMrCooper) the reason we developed #CodeSTEMI was to inform, educate, entertain and share stories of dealing with STEMI in the field! If you have had a STEMI activation, tell us about it, what did you learn? How could it have been improved for the patient? for you as a [...]
Why are we doing this #CodeSTEMI thing?
In our careers as first responders there has been very few times in history that a technology, scope of practice or community need has been introduced that we have had such an integral and life changing role in. In a world where cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death we can detect ST Elevation [...]
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