[Answer] A patient experiencing STEMI comes to the emergency department of a large medical center at 9:30 p.m. The patient states that the symptoms started about 8 p.m. After confirming the diagnosis and initiating care the healthcare team schedules the patient for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The facility is capable of administering PCI. To achieve the best outcomes therapy should be administered to this patient by which time?

Answer: Reperfusion therapy should be administered within 1 hour 30 minutes of the patient’s first medical contact if the patient does not need to be transferred to another facility. The patient arrived at 9:30 p.m. so the latest the therapy should be administered would be 11 p.m.
A patient experiencing STEMI comes to the emergency department of a large medical center at 9:30 p.m. The patient states that the symptoms started about 8 p.m. After confirming the diagnosis and initiating care the healt…

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