SAQ 975 – Cardiology – prehospital chest pain with transmitted ECG

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You are working in a tertiary emergency department and receive a transmitted ambulance ECG.

The patient is a 45-year-old man with 20 minutes of central chest pain and an expected arrival time of 10 minutes.

The transmitted 12-lead ECG is shown below.

Ambulance-transmitted 12-lead ECG for a 45-year-old man with central chest pain.
Ambulance-transmitted 12-lead ECG.

Describe and interpret the critical abnormalities shown on this ECG.

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What advice would you give the paramedics transporting this patient?

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The catheter laboratory will not be available for 2 hours, so fibrinolysis is planned. List two fibrinolytic agents that could be used and give a dosing regimen for each.

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Outline an appropriate peri-fibrinolysis anticoagulant regimen.

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