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Expert Care, Latest Technology Helps Patrick Barry Survive Massive Heart Attack
… performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Patrick was immediately defibrillated by EMS and taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Cedar Crest, unconscious but with a pulse. “It was hour to hour, and there was a lot of prayer,” Carol recalls. “I didn’t know it at the time, but he was taken to a really great hospital for lifesaving heart care.” At LVH–Cedar Crest, the cardiac team immediately went into action. They opened his … implanted the Impella device in more than 200 patients at LVH–Cedar Crest, LVH–Muhlenberg and LVH–Pocono, more than any hospital in northeastern Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia region. “There are very few things that amaze me after all the …