Advanced clinical insights & practice: acute coronary syndrome

This article provides the critical care paramedic with a review of the ongoing management of a patient with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In the March issue, we focused on the management and critical care transport of an unstable ACS patient from a small outlying community hospital back to the cath lab. In this article, we focus on the same patient as she progresses through the catheterization lab with complications. It is important to remember that, due to the instability of the precipitating condition, not all patients have a successful outcome with catheterization, and the critical care transport crew may be summoned again for transport.