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What can paramedics inject into a heart attack patient to bust a clot?
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Risky: If a heart attack is suspected, treatment today would be intervention (angioplasty, stent, etc). Thrombolytics can be given, but since other disease processes can mimic heart attacks, giving thrombolytics, or clot- busting drugs, in the field prior to physician evaluation, can lead to devastatingly bad results. Paramedics should stabilize and transport.
Answered 2/14/2014
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