Update treayment of myocardial acute infarction?

The above answer is correct. I'll kind of expound a bit. The oxygen supplement is necessary even if a person having a heart attack is sating in the 90s. The heart needs the extra oxygen to help keep the injury from expanding. The pain killer is usually morphine for two reasons. It helps with pain control and it helps the heart therapuetically to work more efficiently ....a third reason is to help the patient relax their breathing a bit. Nitro is also given for pain relief by dilating cornary arteries and improving blood flow. Retavase is the thrombolitic of choice in our hospital. Most MIs are cause by a blood clot in a heart vessel and thrombolitics act to dissolve a clot quickly, helping to limit serious damage....time is of the essence. The quicker the clot is dissolved, the less damage done. Think of the old pacman game...and you have an idea of what is supposed to happen when thrombolitics are used. Someting I forgot to mention, in the ambulance or the ER aspirn is given if the patient hasn't taken any.

Other meds (depending on BP and arrythmias) may be given. Often in the next day or two, the patient is taken to cath lab to investigate the problems of clogged heart vessels and then if needed bypass surgery or a stint may be done.

1=nasal oxygen
2=pain killers
3=nitroglycerine infusion
4=thrombolysis
5=treat other complications like arrhythmias if atall !