As of: March 19, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Hans Moritz
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Starting signal for the newly formed team (from left) Medical Director PD Dr.
Lorenz Bott-Flügel, nurse Abdul Ghafar Mamond, nursing manager Ingrid Heeren, team leader Giulia Iona-Arcuri, deputy nursing director Nicole Hoffmann and clinic director Dr.
Dirk Last.
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Chest pain can be a sign of a heart attack, but it can also be an indicator of other serious illnesses.
A quick diagnosis is all the more important.
Erding - The Erding Clinic has now expanded its range of services to include a chest pain unit.
This is announced by hospital spokesman Markus Hautmann.
It took a year and a half to set up a 40(!)-person team and train them for the so-called “Chest Pain Unit”/CPU).
According to Hautmann, their goal is to “quickly determine whether the chest pain is due to a heart-related cause such as a heart attack or angina or has a non-cardiac origin.”
After all, heart disease is the leading cause of death in industrialized countries.
Even medical advances and a generally healthier lifestyle have not been able to change this.
The Erdinger CPU under the leadership of the cardiologist and medical director PD Dr.
According to the statement, Lorenz Bott-Flügel has four monitored beds in the cardiology department on the second floor.
In addition to the medical team, nursing staff who have been specially trained to monitor chest pain look after the patients around the clock, Hautmann continues.
Not only classic heart attacks, but also patients with suspected cardiac arrhythmias, pulmonary embolisms and high blood pressure crises are admitted here and “treated by a team of nurses, internists and cardiologists in a similar way to a monitoring or intensive care unit,” says Hautmann.
District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer speaks of a “further significant improvement in acute medicine in the clinic” and thus in the countryside.
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