Your patient is complaining of severe substernal chest pain…
Your patient is complaining of severe substernal chest pain and has ECG changes that correspond to a patient having an acute myocardial infarction. The patient’s lungs are clear with good tidal volume. Based upon this information, which of the following medications is most appropriate to be administered first?
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An elderly female patient had been complaining of kidney pain, increased pain upon urination, and a “foul odor” when urinating with “cloudy & discolored urine”. Her well-meaning daughter had some left-over antibiotic (amoxicillin) and gave it to her mother for the self-diagnosed “urinary tract infection”. The elderly female takes digitalis for her chronic atrial fibrillation. What potential effect might the antibiotic have in relation to the digitalis?
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