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Orange County Emergency Medical Services recently announced that St. Joseph Hospital has been designated as a Cardiovascular Receiving Center.
"As a receiving center, paramedics will bring those patients with higher-risk heart attacks (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) directly to the Chest Pain Center at St. Joseph Hospital. Here they will be rapidly assessed and triaged, and where appropriate, have immediate angiography, angioplasty or even bypass surgery," says Donald Mahon, M.D., medical director of cardiology for St. Joseph Hospital.
This designation also means that St. Joseph Hospital has a highly skilled cardiac response team ready to treat heart attack patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "Time is of the essence," says Mahon. "If the heart muscle loses bloody supply for an extended period, it dies. And you can't recover what was lost."
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