Acute myocardial infarction treatment is followed from the days of my house surgeoncy from 1977 till date. The AMI patient was put on complete bed rest and my professor used to say not even moving the thumb for five days, which I am sure is highly impossible. The Professor under whom I worked as house surgeon used Digoxin after dilution intravenously sixth hourly very slowly for five days for which I could not get any literature support till date. May be making the heart to work less by reducing the heart rate, the heart was given adequate rest is a possible explanation understood by me now.
Isosorbide dinitrate was available and given.If needed O 2 was given. Afterward, when I was a post graduate in 1980 to 1982, the idea of using heparin and aspirin was yet to be introduced. My father who had AMI in 1983 was treated by one of the leading cardiologists now - at that time General…
