Report of 24 cases of myocardial infarction treated at home.
During a four-year period in one general practice 50 patients suffered myocardial infarction; 24 were dead before their general practitioner saw them. Of the surviving 26, 2 were admitted to hospital for social reasons and the others were treated in their homes.One woman suffered a pulmonary embolus on the tenth day of her illness and was admitted to hospital. Three patients were found to develop arrythmias; one of these died. One other patient died, but the others made uneventful recoveries.These results compare well with those obtained by specialist units, perhaps because the advantages of such a unit are balanced by the hazards of transportation to it.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology