Heart attack guidance for physicians: When to suspect, how to diagnose, what to do?

Lack of awareness among the first contact physicians is one of the major causes for delay in reperfusion therapy in India. Physicians need not only clear-cut guidance about when to perform an ECG and when to refer a patient but also need to understand the mortality advantage of early intervention as...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, K.K., Mishra, Sundeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28400041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.03.003
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description Lack of awareness among the first contact physicians is one of the major causes for delay in reperfusion therapy in India. Physicians need not only clear-cut guidance about when to perform an ECG and when to refer a patient but also need to understand the mortality advantage of early intervention as well as medico-legal aspects of this condition.
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spelling pubmed-53880372018-04-01 Heart attack guidance for physicians: When to suspect, how to diagnose, what to do? Aggarwal, K.K. Mishra, Sundeep Indian Heart J Editorial Lack of awareness among the first contact physicians is one of the major causes for delay in reperfusion therapy in India. Physicians need not only clear-cut guidance about when to perform an ECG and when to refer a patient but also need to understand the mortality advantage of early intervention as well as medico-legal aspects of this condition. Elsevier 2017-04 2017-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5388037/ /pubmed/28400041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.03.003 Text en © 2017 Cardiological Society of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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