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What is a heart attack known as?
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI).
What is the medical abbreviation meaning heart attack?
MI (myocardial infarction) Acute Myocardial Infarction, or AMI.
What is AMI in medicine?
AMI = Acute Myocardial Infarction (heart attack)
Is heart disease chronic?
Some heart diseases are chronic while some are acute, such as acute myocardial infarction.
What are heart attacks are called?
There are a few terms, the most common ones are: * Acute Myocardial Infarction. * Myocardial Infarction. * Coronary thrombosis. * Coronary.
What does the medical abbreviation AMI mean?
AMI means Acute Myocardial Infarction
Why is morphine used in acute myocardial infarction?
During an Acute MI (Myocardial Infarction), the heart muscle has a reduced oxygen supply and dies. This is very painful, so Diamorphine is often given for analgesia (pain relief).
How can a certified nurse assistant care for a person with myocardio infarction?
how can a certified nurse assistant care for a person with myocardial infarction? ----- An acute infarction would possibly need cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
Is transmural ischemia due to acute myocardial infarction?
Myocardial ischemia is owing to poor blood supply and infarction is due to no blood supply. The severity of both differs and ischemia can progress to infarction.
What is the sudden cessation of oxygen delivery?
profound shock (as seen with acute myocardial infarction)
What laboratory values would indicate a patient has experienced an acute myocardial infarction?
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What is the blood test performed to determine cardiac damage in an acute myocardial infarction is?
Cardiac enzymes
