New system cuts delay in heart patients
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_he_me/heart_monitor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061213/capt.lrm10112131830.heart_monitor_lrm101.jpg?x=87&y=130&sig=ulm_6O1ku8im1SGDPkxdqw--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Dr. Ibrahim Fahdi, a cardiologist at the University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences, center, holds a handheld wireless device that is receiving heart monitor data from mock patient Dr. Darapan Bansal, a cardiologist at UAMS, front, during a news conference, Wednesday Dec. 13, 2006, in Little Rock, Ark. The wireless system dubbed CALL or Cardiac Action Life Link, unveiled Wednesday, will transmit heart monitor data from an ambulance directly to the cardiologist on call to reduce the time to treat a heart attack patient. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)" border="0" /></a>AP - If time spent transporting a suspected heart attack victim to a hospital could be used to work out a diagnosis and treatment plan, doctors say, more lives could be saved — and now that will be possible in central Arkansas.</p><br clear="all"/>