Method of treating heart attack patients prior to the establishment of qualified direct contact personal care

A method of participating in the pre-hospital phase treatment of coronary prone individuals by any one of said individuals and/or non-qualified persons in direct contact therewith at a time during the early minutes or hours after the onset of heart attack symptoms, each of which individuals has been previously provided with (1) a plurality of separate injectors suitable for self-administration under the disconcerting circumstances present during the aforesaid time, each containing a liquid dosage of a different medicament non-intravenously injectable into the individual effecting the self-administration of the injector, each of which medicaments (a) when so injected is generally effective to reduce the incidence of adverse cardiac conditions, such as ectopic beats, when the existing heart beat condition is within a different predetermined portion of the total range of heart beat conditions which may exist during an attack, and (b) may be inadvisable or unwise to inject when such heart beat conditions are outside the predetermined portion of the total range in which the medicament is effective as aforesaid, and (2) a diagnosing device having electrode means operable to be simply and conveniently disposed in operative relation to an individual for sensing the electrical impulses which trigger the heart beat and battery operated signal producing means operable when said electrode means is disposed in said operative relation to produce ECG signals indicative of the sensed heart beat conditions of the individual, said method comprising the steps of:

• 1. maintaining in a readily accessible and producible form medical history information of each of said individuals including standing orders by each individual's doctor as to an indicated medicament to be administered based upon an indicated range portion of the heart beat conditions of the individual existing at the time of an attack,
• 2. establishing at a central station communication by telephone with any one of said individuals experiencing heart attack symptoms,
• 3. receiving at said central station over the established telephone communication information as to the identity of the individual experiencing heart attack symptoms,
• 4. obtaining access to the maintained medical history information including said standing orders applicable to the identified individual,
• 5. producing the medical history information of the identified individual including the standing orders applicable thereto for utilization in formulating a qualified response,
• 6. receiving ECG signals over the established telephone communication which are (a) produced by the signal producing means of the device with said electrode means in operative relation to the individual experiencing heart attack symptoms and (b) transmitted over the established telephone communication,
• 7. producing the received ECG signals for utilization in formulating a qualified response,
• 8. utilizing the produced medical history information including said standing orders and the produced ECG signals to formulate a qualified response at the central station, such as would be arrived at by the individual's doctor, based upon the standing orders of the individual's doctor, and
• 9. transmitting from the central station over the established telephone communication the aforesaid qualified response.