Clinical Pathophysiology Prevention

Manifestations “Prolonged
● Low fat diet
ischemia of the ● Exercise
● Dyspnea cardiac tissue” ● Smoking cessation
● Anxiety (Capriotti, 2020). ● Limit alcohol
● Fist to chest ● Managing diabetes
(Levine’s sign) ● Reducing stress
● Pallor
● Weak Pulses
● Diaphoresis
Myocardial Infarction

Integrative
Therapy (INP#3)
● Daily walks outside can
help prevent MI
● Nature is a healing
property and exercise
helps the heart
● Take 30 minutes out of
the day to take a walk and
breath in fresh air
Evaluation
Treatment
● Cardiac troponin I
● Antiplatelet medication levels (cTnI)
(aspirin) ● ECG to identify MI
● Administer O2 if but not diagnose
saturation is below 95% ● CPK-MB
● Administer nitrates
● Morphine for pain
● In worst case, surgery