The cardiac care unit at Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital is to be renamed in honour of an ambulance pioneer.
The six-bed unit will be called the Chamberlain Unit after Professor Douglas Chamberlain CBE.
Prof Chamberlain earned international recognition for his pioneering work in coronary care ambulances while working at the Royal Sussex in the Seventies.
It was through his efforts that ambulance personnel routinely became skilled in resuscitation and could provide care for suspected heart attack victims.
In 1978, he set up a heart and lung resuscitation scheme in Brighton, the first in the UK, which was later relaunched in 1982 as Heartguard.
Heartguard now trains about 4,000 people a year in the skills of resuscitation.
Prof Chamberlain became a CBE for his work in 1988.
The unit forms part of the Sussex Cardiac Centre, which recently gained national recognition for its above-average patient survival rates following bypass surgery.
The dedication ceremony takes place on Tuesday.
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