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Why will ambulance workers wait until they get to the hospital to use blood thinners on heart attack patients?
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Blood thinners: Blood thinners like Aspirin can be give. By ambulance workers. But tpa, (alteplase) Heparin are to be given under dr supervision.
Answered 6/25/2014
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