EMBBS Advanced Cardiac Life Support Simulator

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You are working the night shift and it is 3am when your patient arrives. He is a 58 year old white male complaining of a feeling of tightness in the center of his chest beginning 2 hours ago waking him from sleep. The tightness radiates to his left shoulder and has been constant. He reports breaking out in a cold sweat. He has never had this pain before. He has a history of hypertension and is on a "blood pressure pill" which he takes once a day. There is no other significant history other than smoking a pack of cigarrettes per day for the last 15 years. Vitals are below. What would you like to do for this man while you obtain further information?
BP = 134/92, P=72, R=22, T= 37.2 C.

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