[HSF] Another Victory for the LAD Stent.....

[Michael Firstenberg]

All we know about this guy, we got from his driver's license.

59 year/old - called EMS from a local hotel with chest pain.

Found in obvious respiratory distress with severe C.P.
Scooped and run to our ED - intubated in ED instantly, then taken to cath
lab...... very quick door to needle time.

Cath - multiple LAD stents - occluded prox.  unable to pass a wire
     Circ - occluded,  severe RCA disease
  Has ICD

tachycardic to 120-150's
mild hypotension

echo in cath lab ----> almost dead heart.

severe pulm edema, severe respiratory acidosis (ph: 6.9  pCO2=90 sats in
70's)
given lasix, heparin, reopro

we are called........



I guess he has not read the recent studies..............



-michael