BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A patient whose life was saved by the staff at Dignity Health Memorial Hospital expressed gratitude during a reunion ceremony with the medical team. Dr. Ajay Patel, medical director of structural heart, emphasized the importance of recognizing successes in healthcare. <\/p>\n
“I think it’s important for all of us to kind of appreciate the moments when we succeed because sometimes, especially in healthcare, we get bogged down with a lot of the illness and complications that we see. So for the healthcare team, I think it’s important to see the wins,” he said.<\/p>\n
The patient was treated using Impella technology, the world’s smallest heart pump, which allowed his heart to rest and recover during a life-threatening event. Dr. Patel highlighted the critical role of bystander CPR in improving survival rates for cardiac arrest victims outside the hospital, noting, “If someone has a cardiac arrest outside of the hospital, there is a less than 15% chance that they can survive even with the best efforts. That’s why learning about bystand CPR is so helpful.”<\/p>\n
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Dr. Patel also mentioned the hospital’s specialized STEMI team, which is dedicated to performing emergency procedures for heart attack patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A patient whose life was saved by the staff at Dignity Health Memorial Hospital expressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-50527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}