THE William Harvey Hospital has won an award for its round the clock heart attack service which now treats patients with emergency surgery rather than drugs.
The surgery involves a small balloon being inserted in an artery in the groin or arm and guided to the required blockage, once in place the balloon is inflated and then removed leaving a passageway, which allows blood to flow through.
Chief Executive over seeing the cardiac project, Geoffrey Wheat, compared patient waiting times between the two systems “from the time you call for help to the time you have the thrombolysis pathway could be six to eight weeks, with the new treatment the time of calling for help to receiving the balloon, which is the Angioplasty, takes approximately 150 minutes or within 150 minutes”
Wheat continued “Before you would spend probably on average about eight days in hospital and we have reduced that length of stay from that period of time to about three and a half days”
The William Harvey was announced as the regional winner of the NHS Health and Social Care Award at a ceremony in Brighton and now stands as the main centre for coordinating severe heart attack treatment across the county.
“The hospital has been very, very good in working with us” added Wheat “they’re absolutely delighted that we have recognition. This is a huge project to put in place so for something like this (the award) to happen, I think everybody is just really excited about how it has developed and the success of it”.
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