Initial Care Initial Care • Oxygen • Nitrates • Analgesics • Aspirin • Beta Blockers
Pharmacologic Reperfusion • Reperfusion Therapy (Overview of Fibrinolysis and Primary PCI) • Fibrinolysis
Mechanical Reperfusion • The Importance of Reducing Door-to-Balloon Times • Primary PCI • Adjunctive and Rescue PCI • Rescue PCI • Facilitated PCI • Adjunctive PCI • CABG • Management of Patients Who Were Not Reperfused • Assessing Success of Reperfusion
Antithrombin Therapy • Unfractionated Heparin (UFH) Therapy • Low Molecular Weight Heparinoid Therapy • Direct Thrombin Inhibitor Therapy
Antiplatelet Agents • Aspirin • Thienopyridine Therapy • Glycoprotein IIbIIIa Inhibition
Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System • Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System