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First Aid and Safety Patrol of Lebanon is involved in its community in more ways than just being your local ambulance. First Aid and Safety Patrol of Lebanon employees provide various community education programs such as child safety seat checks, in school education programs, free CPR classes and much more..

First Aid and Safety Patrol of Lebanon employees are also very civic minded. They are active or have been represented in various community organizations such as the Community of Lebanon Association, Lebanon Lions Club and the American Cancer Society.

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Pre-Hospital Emergency Cardiac Care Just Got Better In The Lebanon Valley
Date: 02/12/2006
First Aid and Safety Patrol of Lebanon recently purchased a valuable piece of life saving equipment. A Physiocontrol 12-Lead Electrocardiogram Receiving Station was recently purchased by First Aid and Safety Patrol of Lebanon and placed in the Emergency Department of The Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon. The Good Samaritan Hospital is a part of The Good Samaritan Health System. The EKG receiving station allows First Aid and Safety Patrol of Lebanon Paramedics (and any other Emergency Medical Service’s Paramedics) to transmit Diagnostic Quality 12-Lead EKG’s directly to the Emergency Department and to a Cardiologist. This is a tremendous advantage to patients having heart attacks. The advanced technology allows the Emergency Department Physician and the Cardiologist to see what is happening in the patient’s heart while the patient is still in their own home. This is sometimes 30 minutes before they see the patient in the Emergency Department. The advantage in this is that the in hospital treatment team is then able to formulate a treatment plan, ready a room and staff, prepare medications and most importantly prepare a team of Cardiac Interventionalists to perform an immediate cardiac catheterization and even emergency open heart surgery should immediate intervention be necessary. This technology has been proven to dramatically reduce “Door-To-CathLab” times. This is the amount of time that elapses between the time the patient comes through the Emergency Department doors and the time that blood flow is restored to the damaged/effect cardiac vessels. This time has been shown to be directly related to the outcome of patients who have had out-of-hospital myocardial infarctions (heart attacks).
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