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Rapid heart-attack response boosts survival
Category: News & Articles
... Hunter Hospital. “Delivering clot-dissolving drugs up front in the ambulance at the onset of a heart attack significantly improves a ... we can activate the entire cardiac catheterisation team before the ambulance arrives, saving crucial time by bypassing emergency department ... rural NSW and other states are moving to implement the program. NSW Ambulance has fitted every emergency ambulance with the 12-lead ECG ...
Stroke Finder
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... life-saving therapies. The clock is ticking from the moment an ambulance arrives at your door. In NSW alone there are 16,000 acute ... cardiac care , Strokefinders can potentially be used in any ambulance with tele-stroke capability, where paramedics liaise with ... for a new medical device called the Stroke Finder. Paramedic, stroke, ambulance, Medfield Stroke Finder | HMRI Research Stroke Finder ...
Mark Parsons
Category: Researcher Profiles
... clot-busting drugs. Professor Parsons led the development of an ambulance protocol in the Hunter Region for the rapid identification, ... specialist neurologist will likely be waiting at the hospital when an ambulance arrives with a stroke patient on board, armed with the ...
$5.2m gift to transform out-of-hospital care
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... years. The funding forges a collaborative alliance between HMRI, NSW Ambulance and the Hunter New England Local Health District. It aims to ... and ease demand for Emergency Departments. Under the project, NSW Ambulance will extend the reach and availability of its current high ... and training. The extraordinarily generous gift will allow NSW Ambulance training facilities to be upgraded and new education ...
Clinical Cardiovascular
Category: Research

The HMRI cardiovascular research group houses renowned clinical cardiologists working in conjunction with the Hunter New England Area Health Service and the University of Newcastle.

Hunter chosen as test site for stroke detector
Category: News & Articles
... testing ground for a new microwave-imaging headpiece that helps ambulance and emergency teams rapidly diagnose stroke and other ... testing ground for a new microwave-imaging headpiece that helps ambulance and emergency teams rapidly diagnose stroke and other ... plan to involve patients in the Hunter and extend the trial into the ambulance domain for the first time. “The long-term goal is to have ...
Advanced Out of Hospital Care
Category: Research
... Care". Research support grant to support the education of NSW Ambulance paramedics and related healthcare professionals as per the ... Units and Simulation Manikins;  - Facilities: Fit out of NSW Ambulance’s training unit at NSW Ambulance Education Centre (AEC) at Rozelle, NSW. Research Advanced Out ...
Time is crucial in stroke
Category: News & Articles
... Medical Research Institute (HMRI) Stroke Research Group and the Ambulance Service of NSW, people who experience a stroke in the Upper ... areas now have access to brain-saving clot busting treatment. “If Ambulance is notified of the stroke immediately and they assess the ... stroke treatment, they can be flown by helicopter or transported by ambulance directly to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle for ...
Heart in the Right Place
Category: News & Articles
... different to anything else I’d experienced, so I decided to call an ambulance. They took an ECG and sent it to the doctors own smartphone at ... children.” Of course, Graham’s survival story began the moment an ambulance arrived at his door. Under new protocols being tested and ... clot-dissolving drug [Tenecteplase] administered in transport by the ambulance drivers, prior to reaching a hospital. “We find in about ...
Stroke Finder Helmet - saving time, saving brain!
Category: Research
... blood pressure lowering or “clot busting” drug therapies, in the ambulance or in the hospital emergency room, thus lowering the human and ... care and research and are very fortunate to have a very progressive ambulance service that works closely with the Stroke Unit at John Hunter ...
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