New defibrillator /monitors purchased by St. Mark’s Medical Center in La Grange with funds from Second Chance Emporium (SCE) are shown with (front row, from left) Alyssa Smidovec, RN, St. Mark’s; Ashley Havel, St. Mark’s imaging director; (back row) Stacy Cada, SCE assistant store director; Julia Thomas, SCE assistant store director; Gayle Schielack, SCE store director; Laurie Quitta, RN, St. Mark’s MedSurg director; Linda Morrison, SCE board secretary; and Melissa Taylor, LVN, St. Mark’s.
Second Chance Emporium awarded St. Mark’s Medical Center $19,687 for purchase of two defibrillator/monitors.
The defibrillator/monitors are part of the equipment on crash carts at St. Mark’s that are used for patient management during cardiac or respiratory resuscitation. The new devices monitor the heart rhythm, and when warranted, provide defibrillation to return the heart to rhythm; they also ca…
