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Texas EMS group reports overall resuscitation rates up 50% with use of ResQPOD

Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, December 14th, 2006

Advanced Circulatory Systems, Inc. announced that its ResQPOD, an impedance threshold device or ITD, has been shown to improve resuscitation rates in cardiac arrest victims by nearly 50% at Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services.

Cypress Creek EMS is a large emergency medical care organization in northern Harris County, Texas, serving more than 400,000 in the greater Houston area.

In a presentation at the annual American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in Chicago, Illinois, the system manager for Cypress Creek EMS, Greg Wolf, presented data that showed that overall resuscitation rates were up nearly 50% since the deployment of the ResQPOD. The use...

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Source: State and Local Health Law Weekly (2006-12-14)

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