PULSE Magazine | June/July 2019 Issue

2019 Mission: Lifeline EMS Recognition GOLD PLUS

Congratulations to the Clinicians of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services on receiving yet another Gold Plus EMS Recognition from the American Heart Association Mission Lifeline for excellent STEMI care.

Mission: Lifeline EMS recognition is a program designed to showcase Emergency Medical Service organizations across the nation for excellent ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), or more commonly called "heart attack". Prehospital personnel are the first providers of care to patients suffering from cardiac emergencies.

The role of EMS in the system-of-care for these patients is crucial and often sets the course for the patient's outcome. The Mission: Lifeline EMS recognition program was launched in 2014 and continues to celebrate the achievement of the pre-hospital providers and their collaboration with

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