Acute Myocardial Infarction and Acute Stroke: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A 53year-old woman developed severe chest pain, breathlessness and palpitations whilst being told some very devastating news. As the symptoms persisted for more than 15minutes, electrocardiography was undertaken in the community confirming an anterolateral STEMI. Following the electrocardiographic findings the patient was loaded orally in the community with aspirin 300mg and clopidogrel 600mg and was urgently transferred via the community activation primary PCI route to our institution for emergency coronary angiography.
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Vassilios Vassiliou, Bushra Rana, Martin Goddard, Denise Braganza Tags: Letter to the editor Source Type: research
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