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L PASO -- Imagine feeling pressure in your chest, pain in your arms and shortness of breath. Could be a heart attack.
911 is called, and the paramedics arrive and give you a solution that could be the solution to your problem -- possibly slowing, even reversing a heart attack and reducing damage to your ticker.
It's not just a pump dream for a group of El Paso researchers and paramedics who hope to help make it a reality within three years.
El Paso is one of eight cities chosen by the National Institutes of Health to participate in a two-year study of the possible benefits of the treatment.
If the results are what the researchers suspect, we could see up to a 20 percent reduction in heart attacks, or myocardial infarctions, said Dr. ..snip
L PASO -- Imagine feeling pressure in your chest, pain in your arms and shortness of breath. Could be a heart attack.
911 is called, and the paramedics arrive and give you a solution that could be the solution to your problem -- possibly slowing, even reversing a heart attack and reducing damage to your ticker.
It's not just a pump dream for a group of El Paso researchers and paramedics who hope to help make it a reality within three years.
El Paso is one of eight cities chosen by the National Institutes of Health to participate in a two-year study of the possible benefits of the treatment.
If the results are what the researchers suspect, we could see up to a 20 percent reduction in heart attacks, or myocardial infarctions, said Dr. ..snip
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