The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
since Gene Brownwell coined this term, time is myocardium, since we understand that the longer the heart is deprived of oxygen, the less chance that it's going to actually recover. There's been a push to speed things up. And so now there's- So the ER can now make that call.
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So the standard of care in this country today is that if you show up with ST elevation and a clinical picture that looks like MI, you end up going to a cath lab within an an hour and you get that artery opened up.
If you show up in the hospital or in the emergency room or anywhere in the world with a ST elevation MI, a STEMI, In other words, that ST segment is increased above baseline and you're having a heart attack. Yeah. It's do not pass go, do not collect $200. You're going straight to the cath lab.
so in an STL Mi it's primary PCI is the standard of care class one the whole deal and uh as quickly as you can get there
stemi is a is a emergency go go straight to the cath lab don't pass go