Cardiologists announce results of 'successful effort to save lives'

DETROIT – Cardiologists from a number of hospitals across Metro Detroit announced Wednesday the results of a “successful effort to save lives.”

Doctors from Beaumont, DMC, Providence, St. John, Saint Joseph and Henry Ford hospitals were joined by two patients to discuss a life-saving effort that began last summer.

The Detroit Cardiogenic Shock Initiative doubled survival rates in patients experiencing a life-threatening side-effect to a heart attack.

“This unprecedented effort shows the powerful advances we can make to save lives by working together in metro Detroit,” said lead investigator William W. O’Neill, M.D., director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Health System.

The event took place at 1 p.m. at Henry Ford Health System corporate headquarters in Detroit.