I got a call from the emergency room at about ten pm. I headed for the car and made my way to the hospital as quickly as I could. I walked quickly into the ER and saw my patient almost immediately. He looked terrible and time was of the essence. He was in his mid-forties. He was pale and sweaty. His skin was cold to the touch and it looked like he was going into shock. They had already done an EKG and it showed the changes that meant he had a heart attack on the front of his heart that went through the entire wall. They call those EKG changes tombstone elevations and the artery responsible the “widowmaker.” That tells you how dangerous this situation is. His pain was still severe and had just begun an hour ago. His face was twisted with discomfort and worry. We still did not have a cardiologist in town. A new medicine had come out the year before, and I had never used it. It looked like this might be it. We knew now that heart attacks are caused by clot, and TPA was a
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Actually, this patient got really lucky. His abnormal ECG was obvious. In reality, majority of people (70,000 annulay estimated), especially women, die from heart attackes/herat failure within 30 days after they visited the Emergency Departmenst for chest pain complaints tested "normal" on their ECGs and Troponnin levels, sadly. Many of them die while waiting to be cared for in the wating rooms of the ER! More American women die from cardiovacular diseases than men due to lack of a better test. This was one of the reasons we developed Multifunction Cardiogram Technology to eliminate the tragedy.
Actually, this patient got really lucky. His abnormal ECG was obvious. In reality, majority of people (70,000 annulay estimated), especially women, die from heart attackes/herat failure within 30 days after they visited the Emergency Departmenst for chest pain complaints tested "normal" on their ECGs and Troponnin levels, sadly. Many of them die while waiting to be cared for in the wating rooms of the ER! More American women die from cardiovacular diseases than men due to lack of a better test. This was one of the reasons we developed Multifunction Cardiogram Technology to eliminate the tragedy.
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