Not clear what you mean by "silent MI".
Simon
Simon Carley
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From: "Anton van Dellen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Call to Door times; WAS: Coronary Heart Disease
Collaborative(England)
> Sorry, did not mean to imply we thrombolyse silent MIs pre-hospital, but
> rather that wide-spread use of pre-hospital 12 leads idenitified such
> patients and allows them to drop on to the right care pathway.
>
> Anton
>
> Anton van Dellen wrote:
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> < SNIP >
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> > Had an interesting discussion about this with Danny McGeehan on Monday
> > night at our Paramedic Steering Group meeting - barn door MI patients
> > that are appropriate for pre-hospital thrombolysis are relatively rare -
> > probably about 1 a month in our patch at present. However, pre-hospital
> > 12 leads are picking up many silent MIs.
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