At 18:50 10/03/2009, you wrote:
>Most local GPs will have an ECG machine provided by CHP as part of us
>being part of a pre-hospital tenecteplase scheme.
>
>So, yes I will use it extensively in acute situations - not as a way to
>make decisions on admission etc which would be daft in the extreme, but
>whether I want to pull out the big syringe.
>
>Peter
Peter,
Many thanks.
Comments were derived from the local situation where GPs do not give
out of hospital thrombolysis.
On a slightly different tack one could also argue that these days out
of hospital thrombolysis prevents the single most helpful
intervention in those with an MI which is angioplasty.
Let's hope that thrombolysis schemes will be replaced with the least
possible delay.
Julian
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