yowzer
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incorrect sir. what he meant(i have to assume) was medical control, meaning the doc at the hospital. you call the doc, say the pt is having cp sob diaphoresis left arm pain with a pressure over 100 etc and the doc say ok give him ntg sl q5m x3. the problem here is if his pressure bottoms out, you cant do anything about it except the super effective trendelenburg. you also cant do an ekg to determine the location of the mi which is *****HUGE***** in determining whether or not to give them the nitro.
You know, I've never understood this.
Millions of people are walking around out there with little bottles of nitro tabs to take when they're having chest pain... yet they don't have BP cuffs, much less 12 leads in their pockets. If it was really so incredibly important to rule out an inferior MI first, would nitro rx's be handed out so freely to cardiac patients?