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David FM Brown, MD Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, David FM Brown, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Drew Evan Fenton, MD, FAAEM Private Practice, Gary Setnik, MD Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital; Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Gary Setnik, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, National Association of EMS Physicians, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Disclosure: SironaHealth Salary Management position; South Middlesex EMS Consortium Salary Management position; ProceduresConsult.com Royalty Other, Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference, Eric Vanderbush, MD, FACC Chief, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Harlem Hospital Center; Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Eric Vanderbush, MD, FACC is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. 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Med Sci Monit. 2014 Jun 24. Prehospital fibrinolytic therapy by the administration of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), aspirin, and heparin may be given to patients with bona fide MI by paramedics, as guided by electrocardiographic findings, within 90 minutes of the onset of symptoms. Systemic venodilation results in reduction of venous blood return to the heart (ie, reducing the ventricular preload); this will lead to reduction of the workload of the heart, less oxygen demand, and reduction in ischemic pain. 2005 Mar 1. Prognostic usefulness of white blood cell count and temperature in acute myocardial infarction (from the CARDINAL Trial). 2006 Dec. 152 (6):1042-50. Fibrinolysis is an important reperfusion strategy, particularly in settings where primary PCI cannot be offered to STEMI patients within the recommended timelines. LMI patients presenting as NSTEMI should receive initial medical therapy with oxygen (if hypoxic, Saturation of oxygen <94%), beta-blockers (Carvedilol, Metoprolol, Bisoprolol), and a statin (Rosuvastatin or Atorvastatin). A study based on atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC), reported an overall LMI incidence of 13.4% amongst patients presenting with STEMI. [73, 74]  Current clinical practice guidelines have emphasized adopting institutional quality improvement measures to reduce total ischemic time, which is the principal determinant of outcome, Wiviott SD, Braunwald E, McCabe CH, et al, for the TRITON-TIMI 38 Investigators. The heart, a hollow muscular organ, is located in the center of the chest. [16] All patients with LMI should be placed on life-long therapy with aspirin, beta-blockers, and high intensity-high potency statins. 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