Cardiac Alert Shortens Time
for Heart Attack Treatment
To help demonstrate Halifax Health’s
dedication to excellence in heart attack
care and early cardiac intervention, Halifax
Health Medical Center and Halifax Health
— Medical Center of Port Orange have
implemented a Cardiac Alert system.
Much like a Trauma Alert, the Cardiac Alert puts a process in place to ensure certain steps happen automatically and in sequence. Multidisciplinary cardiac care is provided efficiently, and the time a heart attack patient waits before receiving balloon angioplasty — also known as door-to-balloon time — is significantly reduced. At-risk patients with significant cardiac damage will be served quickly and effectively when they are admitted to the Emergency Departments at Halifax Health Medical Center and Halifax Health — Medical Center of Port Orange.
When the national door-to-balloon standard was reduced from 120 to 90 minutes in July 2006, Halifax Health responded. Halifax Health is now the only East Central Florida member of the national Door-to-Balloon Alliance, with a goal to reach the 90-minute door-toballoon standard.
Halifax Health Medical Center sees approximately 120 heart attacks per year in the Emergency Department.
