title: Benifits of nurse initiated thrombolysis.
abstract: Prompt thrombolytic treatment is well established in the management of acute myocardial infarction (MI), and mortality is reduced and clinical outcome improved if treatment is started in the first hour after the onset of ischaemic chest pain. The goal of the national service framework for coronary heart disease is that by April 2002, 75per cent of eligible patients should receive thrombolysis within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital.