The TV cameras captured the Acute Heart Attack Value Stream designed by ThedaCare doctors and nurses.
This is an interesting look at how lean has collapsed time for an acute heart attack patient. The remarkable thing is as the time has collapsed state of the art therapy is now available for patients that wasn't before this team of doctors and nurses took the waste out of the acute heart attack process.
In the past if a patient in rural Wisconsin came to a small hospital emergency room with a heart attack he would be given clot busting drugs instead of the gold standard balloon therapy. This happened because the diagnosis and transportation took longer than the 90 minutes required to have a good outcome. The ThedaCare professionals have taken many of the wasteful steps out of the heart attack process and in so doing patients from 70 miles away now have the same chance for life saving therapy that urban dwellers have. Click on the link below to see the video of this remarkable work.
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/rescue-drill-for-heart-attack-patients
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