St. Louis Nurse Campaigns for Ambulance Upgrades

• MICHELE MUNZ
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• 2009 Nov 13

Outfitting St. Louis ambulances with machines that save precious minutes for heart attack patients would be one of Helen Sandkuhl's biggest accomplishments in her 36-year-career as an emergency room nurse — ranking with saving a newborn's life and comforting a scared family member.

Her campaign started three years ago, when St. Louis Fire Department chief of paramedics Monroe Yancie asked for her help in getting new electrocardiographs — known as EKGs — devices that measure heart rhythms. Sandkuhl is the director of emergency nursing at St. Louis University Hospital, where the paramedics transport a chunk of their patients. 

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