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Chest Pain Card

Name: Chest Pain Card
Uploaded: 2021-03-01T19:01:37+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Peter Antevy
Description: A short YouTube guidance video by Peter Antevy titled “Chest Pain Card” (created/uploaded March 1, 2021) urging first responders/clinicians to give…

1 Mar 2021 · 1 min

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A short YouTube guidance video by Peter Antevy titled “Chest Pain Card” (created/uploaded March 1, 2021) urging first responders/clinicians to give aspirin to anyone reporting chest discomfort—defined broadly as tightness, heaviness, squeezing, or pain—unless contraindicated. The speaker states aspirin can reduce death rate from heart attack by 50% and emphasizes starting aspirin immediately when appropriate.

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Peter Antevy.

March 1, 2021.

50% (speaker's claim).

Anybody who complains of any form of chest discomfort (chest tightness, heaviness, squeezing, pain), unless allergic or otherwise contraindicated.

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Hello again. I'm going to be talking about the chest pain and chest discomfort EMD card today. You'll notice that we are now really encouraging you to give aspirin to anybody who complains of any sort of chest discomfort. And understand that terminology. I don't want anybody to get real tied up with it. So whether somebody describes chest tightness, chest heaviness, squeezing in the chest, chest pain, etc. All of those are collectively considered chest pain. Now aspirin is a life saving medication for those who are having cardiac.
And those folks typically present with some sort of chest symptom may be described in any of one of the words I just described. Aspirin can decrease the death rate in folks having a heart attack by 50%. That's how important it is. So it's really critical for those folks who are having any sort of chest discomfort or chest pain that as long as they're not allergic to aspirin, have any other contraindications to aspirin, that we go ahead and get them to start taking that aspirin right away so that we can decrease the chance of dying from potential heart attack. Thank you so much for listening.