The Importance of a CT Scan in a Cardiac Arrest Center

"I would say every cardiac arrest should be transferred," he says. "The freestanding is not an issue in the small community shops that have maybe one or two ICU beds" The older scanners many centers have, it's real pain in the butt to get coronary arteries on a CT because they really need to be relatively slow on their heart rate. But if you show them enormous blockage in one of the major vascular paths, then they could take an earlier route.