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The regional referral hospital for hemodynamics and cardiac surgery is the University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, located 50 km from Cartagena.

The University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca have a cardiologist on call 24 hours in hospital and hemodynamics teams continuously.

Its hemodynamics now carried a higher number 1300 angioplasties a year and has 6 catheterization prepared to carry out scheduled as primary angioplasty in AMI.

In Area II Health, the referral hospital is the University Hospital of Santa Lucia there is also a service catheterization only is operational Monday through Friday mornings, ie, the service is closed evenings and weekends.

So despite being equipped to do angioplasties, if a heart attack occurs outside the hours it is open in Cartagena protocol requires the applicant to follow hospital AMI intervention to contact the attending cardiologist regional referral hospital, who turn communicates the hemodynamics team need to go to hospital.

Transfers are made to UVI, mostly the 061 emergency service, moving back to the patient after the intervention, to the ICU of the hospital reference, unless the patient's clinical hemodynamic (electrical instability criterion cardiologist situation or performing the procedure, etc..) recommends against it.

Integral to Ischemic Heart Disease Care Programme 2010-2013 prepared by the Murciano Health Service, among many other data collected (particularly in its page 33) the objectives posed to improve care for these patients.

Among the recommendations is abundantly clear the need to equip hospitals aparataje and qualified to deal with this type of pathology human personnel, and makes special emphasis on the urgency in patient care, to substantially reduce the risk of death.

Therefore, from the Plural Left understand that the Health Area of ​​Cartagena is sufficiently populated, and has a new hospital, with qualified staff and sufficient aparataje to offer this service so continues 365 days a year as full-time it the Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca and we have requested through a motion by Councilwoman Maria Rosa Mateo today.

We must also remember that our health area population is increased in summer due to the large number of tourists who visit us.

Finally from the Plural Left emphasize that our proposal is not intended to cause alarm, but to improve the quality of care users Health Area II.

Also think that simply having a team of additional hemodynamic located, you could offer the best service without transfer to Murcia, and the cost would be perfectly acceptable by Murciano Health Service, since the savings would be very significant transfers.

Source: IU-verdes Cartagena