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Speaker 1: We know that Catherine Hospital's emergency department is now equipped

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Speaker 1: with a rapid cardiac testing equipment that can diagnose chest

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Speaker 1: pain in a matter of minutes. The new technology, which

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory government is starting as an Australian first,

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Speaker 1: has the capacity to generate results.

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Speaker 2: In just eight minutes.

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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line to tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit more is the emergency department's clinical nurse manager, Mandy Canning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to your Mandy.

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Speaker 3: Oh, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, really good lovely to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: And Mandy tell you what this sounds like. It's an

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Speaker 1: incredible piece of equipment. How exactly does it work?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's very straightforward. All we need to do is

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Speaker 3: pop a sample of the patient's blood onto like a

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Speaker 3: little slide pops into to the machine and then from

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Speaker 3: there it starts to analyze it over a few minutes,

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Speaker 3: so it's quick and it's easy. Did he use it? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, previously, how long did patients have to sort

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Speaker 1: of wait for some of those cardiac results.

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Speaker 3: Well, because in the old days we had a low

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Speaker 3: sensitive testing machine, it meant that they had to wait

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Speaker 3: six hours in between testing, whereas now within a couple

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Speaker 3: of hours we know, yeah, we know our patients have

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Speaker 3: had a heart attack, a patient with chest pain, but

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Speaker 3: they've always really worried and anxious. So those vast results

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Speaker 3: are so helpful the causes of chest pain because they

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Speaker 3: can range from anything from indigestion, from heartburn to a

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Speaker 3: heart attack. So to be able to rule out a

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Speaker 3: heart attack as quickly as possible, it is so important

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Speaker 3: for our patients.

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Speaker 1: It like it will be life changing, I would think

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Speaker 1: in some ways.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, it means that how our doctors can liaise

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Speaker 3: with other facilities for quick transport out so they can

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Speaker 3: get the health care that they need. As the saying

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Speaker 3: sas time is muscle, meaning that the longer that you

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Speaker 3: wait for treatment, the more damage that can occur to

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Speaker 3: the heart muscle. Yeah, which can impact recovery. And the

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Speaker 3: medical and the nursing team can also start caring for

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Speaker 3: patients quickly too, start medications and other treatments as well

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Speaker 3: to help with our patients recovery. So yeah, it just

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Speaker 3: gives that extra support that our patient needs.

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Speaker 1: So support for patients, but it also sounds like it's

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Speaker 1: going to really help you guys the staff as well,

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Speaker 1: not only in terms of diagnosing, but I would think

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Speaker 1: that you know that time management too.

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, Yes, that's right. It allows us to provide

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Speaker 3: more patients with the care and help that they need

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Speaker 3: because it improves patient flow in the apartment as well.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we've got a very limited staffing, so yeah,

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Speaker 3: it allows the clinical flow in our department and reduces

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Speaker 3: the time that people have to wait in the department

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Speaker 3: as well. So yeah, helps with our health care for

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Speaker 3: our patients to be able to yeah, to come in

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Speaker 3: and see it's quicker.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a win for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Mandy, do you know if this is is it something

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Speaker 1: that we've got in other Northern Territory hospitals as well,

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Speaker 1: or is Catherine the first?

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Speaker 3: I would say that Catherine would be one of the first. Yes, yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to see it. I'd love to see it

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Speaker 3: in other remote facilities as well in the future too,

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Speaker 3: because yeah, having those new state of technology within other

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Speaker 3: rural facilities. I mean it means if people haven't had

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Speaker 3: a heart attack, then they don't have to be transported

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Speaker 3: all the way from Luck from those outer areas in

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Speaker 3: the Northern territory to Catherine. No, I mean, no one

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Speaker 3: wants to come into the emergency.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to exactly. That's exactly right, Mandy.

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Speaker 1: You quick one Warricks called in to ask if there

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Speaker 1: are enough staff to operate it. He's also he also

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Speaker 1: is keen to find out why patients can't get X

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Speaker 1: rays on the weekends. I'm not sure if that's something

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Speaker 1: that you're able to answer or not.

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Speaker 3: We have the interact with staffing, I mean our staffing.

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Speaker 3: We we have adequate staffing to support the new technology

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Speaker 3: and of course our support in the department at all times.

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Speaker 3: Very lucky. I'm very lucky to have such a talented

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Speaker 3: team of nurses that I work with, So very lucky

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Speaker 3: in that respects the X rays probably not something that.

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Speaker 1: I could That's all right, we can follow up. We

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Speaker 1: can chase that up with the department. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to put you in a situation that where you're not

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Speaker 1: able to answer something, Mandy.

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Speaker 2: It's look, this piece of equipment.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like it's an amazing piece of equipment for Territorians

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Speaker 1: and particularly for you guys at the Catherine Hospital. You know,

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Speaker 1: in terms of helping not only the patients but also

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Speaker 1: in terms of enabling the staff to really diagnose people

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Speaker 1: quite quickly.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we're very lucky. Yes, we're very lucky to

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Speaker 3: have this technology in our big Rivers region.

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Speaker 1: All good stuff, Well, Emergency Department, Clinical nurs Manager, Mandy Canning,

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us on the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you,