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To the Editor: In his review of Life in the Balance (July 17 issue)¹ Dr. Safar states, "The mobile cardiac care unit introduced in Belfast in the mid-1960s brought cardiology fellows to heart-attack (not heart-arrest) victims in attempts to prevent cardiac arrest." This is a misunderstanding of the past 30 years of mobile coronary care in Belfast. The main purpose of the Belfast mobile coronary care unit set up in 1966 (before the widespread availability of thrombolytic therapy) was to bring equipment for defibrillation to the collapsed patient in the community with minimal delay, thus increasing the chance of full . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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