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…