Lifeline: Sustaining hope for heart patients

 Dr. Richard Zelman  Cape Cod Hospital will continue to perform emergency angioplasties for the time being, but no longer as part of a Johns Hopkins study.

State Department of Public Health officials will help to set up a registry for emergency angioplasty patients, said department spokesman Mark Leccese.

Once that is established, Cape Cod Hospital and other community hospitals that had been part of the Johns Hopkins study can apply to participate in the registry, Leccese said.

In the meantime, the four community hospitals can continue to perform the procedure on patients in the midst of heart attacks.

"This is very good news for the people of Cape Cod, because it means a service we know is life-saving will be available here," said Deborah Dougherty, spokeswoman for Cape Cod Healthcare Inc., the parent company of Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals.She said Cape Cod Hospital should not have any trouble getting on a registry. She said study results indicate emergency angioplasty is successful in breaking the clots that cause heart attack, and a registry would allow cardiologists to offer the procedure to any patient meeting treatment guidelines.While participating in the Johns Hopkins study, doctors could offer emergency angioplasty only to half the study participants, chosen at random by computer. The computer assigned the other 50 percent of the study participants to receive clot-busting medications.

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