Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2000

New Method of Detecting Heart Attacks Diagnosis o f a heart attack at th e early s t a g es h a sn e v e r b e e n easy. Ma ny sufferers experience a tight squeezing chest pain but this type of pain may occur w i t h o t h er c o n d i t i o ns t oo , s u ch a s indigestion. Fo r this reason, doctors a t accident and emergency d e p a r tme n ts have always been face d with the problem of wrongly sending hom e patients with h e a rt p r o b l ems b u t a dmi t t i ng t ho se without. Do c t o r s a t t h e D e p a r t me ntof Me d i c i n e a n d Th e r a p e u t i cs a nd t he Ac c i d e n t a n d Eme r g e n cy Me d i c i ne Academic Unit have recently adopted a new bedside test for the speedy diagnosis of patients with a suspected acute heart attack or angina. The test is more sensitive and accurate than the standard tests and results can be obtained immediately. Services to the Community Mainland Patients in Poverty Receive Help The Y uWing Rehabilitation Fund wa s e s t a b l i s h e d b y t he D e p a r t me n t o f Orthopaedics and Traumatology on 18t h Ap r il 2000 t o p r o v i d e f r e e me d i c al services to disabled person s in poverty as well as burns patients o n the mainland. The project has been made possible b ya generous donation of $2 million from a Mr. Law. For t h e c omi ng t h r e ye a r s , it is p l a n n ed t hat t h e f u n d will s u p p o rt orthopaedic surgery for 100 patients and p r ov i de rehabilitation services t o 200 patients. It will also help specific localities set u p their own rehabilitation trainin g facilities. Short c ou r s e s i n basic rehabilitation will thus be organized for local health care workers; prosthesis an d orthotic training an d service centres will also be set up to support patients. New Centre for Elderly with Dementia Prof. Arthur K. C. Li speaking at the opening ceremony of the new centre The Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing wa s officially opened on 24th June 2000. The centre i s o p e r a t ed b y t he University and funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The first o fits kind in southeast Asia to c omb i n e d a y - c a r e, s h o r t - t e rm residential service, trainings and research on dementia, the centre i shoused in a f ou r - s t o r e y bu i l d i ng , located w i t h in Sh a t in Ho s p i t al c o m p o u n d s a n d e q u i p p e d wi t h a garden. It h a s be en CHINES E UNIVERSIT Y BULLETI N Autumn • Winter 2000 64