The Bruce Peninsula Hospitals Foundation says more than $132,000 has been raised to allow for the purchase of five new electrocardiogram devices at hospitals in Wiarton and Lion’s Head.
The current ECG devices at those two Grey Bruce Health Services facilities are at the end of their life span and no long supported for replacement parts and services, a release from the foundation explains.
The president and CEO of Grey Bruce Health Services Gary Sims accepted a cheque from the Bruce Peninsula Hospitals Foundation on Oct. 1 for the purchase of the three new ECGs for Wiarton and two for Lion’s Head.
“I am just amazed by our donors who have so generously supported our efforts to fund the new ECGs,” says Bruce Peninsula Hospitals Foundation Chair Kevin Walsh in a statement. “Our hospitals desperately need the current ECGs replaced. Our foundation team is so pleased to work with our communities and donors in making this happen.”
An ECG device quickly collects information transmitted from 12-18 leads attached to the patient and generates a graph of cardiac electrical activity that shows the heart rate, rhythm pattern and other information about the heart.
“It can diagnose different types of, and areas affected by a heart attack,” a statement from the foundation says. “An ECG is also used to determine what type of rhythm problem is causing a heart rate that is too fast or too slow.”
The hospitals in Wiarton and Lion’s Head conduct around 3,400 ECGs combined annually.
