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Patients who suffer cardiac arresgt out of the hospital most often die or have neurologicao damage because their brains have been starved of Susan Kill, director of Saint Joseph’s emergency said in a statement. In certaijn cases of cardiac arrest, a sufficienft cardiac rhythm is restored. In these cases, brain damage may be avoidecd by reducing the body core temperature by about 8 degrees Kill noted.
This technique minimizes braij oxygen consumption and minimizesneurological injury, she Saint Joseph’s, which teamed up with Sand y Springs Fire Rescue and Rural Metro are the only participants in the pilotg program that will provide the cooling treatment to patientas even before they reach the hospital. During the pilot, Rural Metrio ambulances will take patients on the hypothermia treatmenf to thechosen “resuscitation receiving hospital,” Saingt Joseph’s. Data from the pilot program will be collected atSaint Joseph’s and used to support the program in other emergency servicese around the country.
(Nasdaq: a publisher of online consumerthealth information, obtained a $13 million credit facility with . This new facilit y replaced a more expensive credirt agreement withCapitalSource LLC. Unde the new agreement, Atlanta-based A.D.A.M. secure a term loan of $10 millionb and expanded its revolvingg credit facilityfrom $2 million to $3 million. A.D.A.M. will pay $2 milliom per year of principal and can repa its debt obligations at any time with no prepayment The new interest rate is equa l tothe 30-day LIBOR plus 3.25 percent compared with A.D.A.M.
’ previous rate of 90-day LIBOR plus 4 The credit agreement with CapitalSourcew was repaid in full and the agreement was Georgia Bio announced winnerd of its 2009 Deal of the Year The awards recognize transactions by life sciences companies such as partnerinf agreements, mergers and acquisitions, financings and government grantw significant to the development of Georgia’s life sciencee industry.
The 2009 award recipients, whose deal were announced in 2008, are as , a venture capital firm specializinhin early-stage medical device and technology investment won in the Medical Devices , a specialty pharmaceutical company developinb and commercializing products based on a new transdermal patch technology, won in the , a provider of automateds instrument-reagent systems to the blood transfusion industry, won in the Diagnostic category. , a pharmaceutical company specializing in marketing and development of branded prescriptionb products forcardiovascular diseases, diabetes, women’s healthg and pediatrics, won in the Merger/Acquisition category. Dr.
Christiajn Larsen has been named chair of the Department of Surgery atthe , surgeon-in-chief of and director of surgical servicea for . Larsen will also become section head of surgergy in The Emory and will hold the endowesd position of Joseph Brownn Whitehead Professorof Surgery. The appointment is effectivr Feb. 1, Emory said in a statement. As chair, Larsen will servs as the senior physiciah executive for thesurgery department. As surgeon-in-chief of Emort University Hospital and director of surgicalk services atEmory Healthcare, he will help develo the clinical program involving surgical departments and plan new ambulatoryh and inpatient facilities. Larsen succeeds Dr.
William who will step down aftet serving as chair of surgery for17 years.