12 high-tech Pre-Hospital ECG do- nated to prevent from myocardial infarction

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EBM and Professor Huang Wei-Chun, director In 2014, Ylan , County, of the Center of Critical Medicine at Rongmin , and Hsinshu General Hospital in , collaborated County have also been able to benefit from to offer Fire Department 12 the Pre-Hospital ECG System, supporting them Pre-Hospital ECG Systems. Today, during the preserving ’s heartbeat ! donation ceremony, Professor Huang, Mr. Huang’s father and EBM Chairman Mr. Pan donated 12 high-tech devices, making Miaoli County the 7th city in Taiwan acquiring this type of technology.

In 2013, Kaohsiung was the first city to benefit from the Pre-Hospital ECG System, making it a precursor city. The Pre-Hospital ECG System has been created to detect myocardial infarction directly by firefighters or in the ambulance and reduce the diagnosis time once at the hospital. It helps the medical team to save more patients lives by reducing D2B (Door to Ballon Time); quickly clearing the blockage heart vessel of patients’. ebm News

Taiwan new government announced that Because loosing someone over a myocardial hospital will now be encouraged and recom- infarction when solutions exist is regrettable, mended to use the EBM Pre-Hospital ECG Professor Huang, his father Mr. Huang Ding-Son System; a decision based on all the positive and EBM decided to offer 12 Pre-Hospital ECG feedbacks and results about the device since System to Miaoli County, a million NT worth it is up and running. The government appealed donation, in partnership with Miaoli County to the generosity of the company to finally Heartbeat Association. equipped Miaoli County, the last major city without this technology.

Present to the donation ceremony, Professor Huang, the spread head and the first to believe in the Pre-Hospital ECG System. It is him and his hard persistent work that enables the ECG system to spread from cities to cities saving lives. In addition to providing Kaohsiung a solution for heart disease urgencies, he also assisted all the hospitals in diagnoizing ECGs and in collecting all the ECG data, acquired from all these cities which have Pre-Hospital ECG systesm in place, to support medical teams.