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Article: Heart treatmentsto be speeded upin hospital switch
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- September 29, 2006
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HUNDREDS of heart attack victims in the Lothians are to receive
instant specialist care for blocked arteries under plans to speed up
their treatment.
A number of emergency patients who would normally be admitted to
the Western General Hospital will go straight to the Edinburgh Royal
Infirmary as part of a shake-up of cardiac services.
Health bosses want to get rid of the laboratory facilities at the
Western General, where patients receive angioplasty procedures to
widen their arteries, because facilities at the ERI are more
efficient.
This means that if paramedics suspect a heart attack victim will
need this procedure, then they will be taken straight to the flagship
hospital.
Dr Brian ...