The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So if you have what we would call complicated non-STEMI, so hemodynamic instability, I mean, your blood pressure is very low or you have heart failure, fluid in your lungs, something else that makes it complicated, or you can't treat people, can't make their chest pain go away with medicines. Something that makes it complicated or ongoing concerning EKG changes, or just you don't feel right. That patient also can go to the cath lab.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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if anybody has unstable symptoms no matter what they have in other words if their blood pressure was labile or they had heart failure um or ongoing chest pain that was refractor to medical management then that would also become a sort of don't pass go go straight to the calab