Home or hospital care after myocardial infarction: is this the right question?
This article attempts to lay down guide-lines for the general practitioner faced with a patient with a myocardial infarction in his home. A too rigid distinction between home or hospital care should not be attempted. Rather the general practitioner should look at home and hospital care and decide which is more appropriate in a particular case. In particular, he must distinguish clearly between cases he sees very soon after an attack and those he sees some hours later. Two hours is suggested as a useful dividing time between the two groups of patients.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001285:Atropine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors
D001285:Atropine; D008012:Lidocaine