Brian Gallaher says his department had tried for many years to come up with the funding for it on its own, but was unsuccessful.
Santa Claus returned to Quincy Wednesday afternoon to make a special delivery to our local EMT's.
Blessing Hospital coordinated with the big guy to deliver a brand new cardiac monitor to staff with the Brown County Ambulance Service. For years, the county's EMS crews took some risks with their cardiac patients because they didn't have enough technology to diagnose heart problems prior to arriving at the hospital.
With this new machine, EMT's will now be able to monitor the heart from 12 different areas, compared to their older machine which only monitored the heart from three.
"By providing us with this monitor, we will be able to transmit the EKG to the cardiac center here at Blessing where Dr. Krause and the other physicians can evaluate that and make a determination as to whether the patient needs to bypass the ER and go directly to the cardiac cath lab.It's a very vital piece of equipment that can mean the life and death for some people," said Brian Gallaher, the director of the Brown County Ambulance Service.
This new machine costs 36 thousand dollars. Gallaher says his department had tried for many years to come up with the funding for it on its own, but was unsuccessful.
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