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Heart Pump Improves Survival After Severe Heart Attacks

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Møller, MD , professor in the Department of Cardiology at the Odense University Hospital in Denmark, consultant at the cardiac intensive care unit of Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet and the study’s lead author. “I I think this will be a routine device that will be used in these desperately ill patients.”

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What can you find with continuous ST monitoring in the ED?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

His care was signed out to the overnight team with a plan to continue to obtain serial troponin measurements and admit the patient to the hospital for an angiogram. He was started on intravenous heparin and given aspirin. Overnight, his troponin continued to rise, but he remained asymptomatic and was resting between cares.