Silent MIs more common than first thought

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Permalink Reply by Tom Bouthillet on April 18, 2009 at 12:13pm

I like the term "unrecognized MI" better, since we don't know for sure the event was clinically silent.

Tom

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Collopy on April 18, 2009 at 4:49pm

Another management difference: STEMI vs NSTEMI. Many places emergently transport and cath STEMI patients, but take a wait and see approach to NSTEMI patients with elevated TNI and CK-MB. Additionally, transport services also take the same approach in treating the NSTEMI patient with less-agressive care than the STEMI patient...perhaps this a good place to look at preventative medicine, for example would more aggressive NTG administration help keep the latter patient from developing a STEMI? perhaps...

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