Released January 10, 2011

Final Scan for 2010 data

The final scan date for all 2010 data is Friday January 21, 2011.  All forms received by the Project Office by this date will be included in the quarterly and annual reports for 2010. The Data Clarification Forms (DCFs) will be sent out in mid February.

Graph Groups Online

Along with being able to see all the newsletters to date, you can now download the graph groups for these newsletters. Click on the graphs link corresponding to the newsletter to download the graph group and follow the simple steps. Once downloaded from our site, the graphs will then need to be loaded into your MacsFlirt program (using Data Tools -> Import) to be viewed, printed and used!

We're Getting Greener!

We recycle! We have reduced!

Now we would like to work with you to reuse. Each quarter we send out a CD-R with your centre’s entire data set on it. These are re-writeable CDs with more than 700MB of space available to use.  Despite how long some centres have been participating, the data sets we send out each quarter are nowhere near this large! Should you want to return your older data discs (and not have piles of them in your office), please feel free to drop one into each envelope of forms each week. The forms will act as padding for the CD’s return trip and we can then reuse the disc for your future data sets. We always label our data sets with the date of generation, so there will be no confusion as to which one is the most recent.

AHA and Prehospital ECGs

As you know, Macstrak started tracking EMS information, including EMS arrival times and ECG information, a few years ago in recognition of the important part that EMS plays as the first medical contact with ACS patients. The AHA has recently published a statement on integrating pre hospital ECGs into care for ACS patients. This article can be found in the AHA Journal, Circulation.