Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Project (MITI)

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · Oct 27, 1999

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BACKGROUND:

In the past, patients with acute myocardial infarction were treated by putting them to bed. It was felt that once the symptoms and electrocardiographic signs of acute myocardial infarction had occurred, the process was complete and that the heart and patient at rest would allow the illness to run its course and the heart to heal. The focus of treatment in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit was to prevent complications of acute myocardial infarction, primarily arrhythmias leading to cardiac arrest and the treatment of cardiac arrest itself. Acute phase morbidity and mortality rela...

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• • Men and women, ages 35 to 71, with chest pain of between 15 minutes and 6 hours duration, systolic blood pressure of more than 80 mm Hg and less than 200 mm Hg, and a diastolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg. (Phase I).
• • Men and women with m