You are listening to the podcast Surgery I see Rounds. My name is Dr. Jeffrey Guy. I'm an associate

professor of surgery and director of the Burns Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Before we get started on today's topic, which is my carnal infarction, I want to kind of update

everybody on a project we've been working over the past couple of years, and that is a pharmacology textbook

dedicated mostly to pre-hospital care, though it's not exclusive to the pre-hospital providers.

When we think about pre-hospital providers, typically in the United States think of paramedics,

but throughout most of the world, the pre-hospital providers are typically in the form of physicians and nurses.

And this textbook is really designed for those who provide pre-hospital care.

We've tried to make the textbook different than other pharmacology textbooks

and that it is kind of a case or problem-based approach to pharmacology.

And we've also developed another podcast to go around it to describe topics of pre-hospital

pharmacology, pharmacology in general, and it is a companion to the textbook.

The textbook is called Pharmacology for the Pre-Hospital Professional.

I'm myself, Jeff Guy, I'm the editor, and it is published by Elsevier, and it should be being released here in the next week.

Certainly check your websites for that, and the website, which we're doing a companion podcast, which will be available on iTunes soon, but can be getting, could be obtained through the website.

The website is www.

Pharmacology for the pre-hospitalprofessional.com or alternatively www.

pre-hospital drugs.com.

Today's topic that I want to discuss is the topic of myocardial infarction.

Now, it is clear that I am not a cardiologist. I am a surgical intensivist and surgeon by training,

but I think those and those of you are listening are certainly the majority of you are not cardiologists,

but those of us who aren't cardiologists, I think that the impact for us not knowing some of the basics

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