Today I was at UNC for a nursing lecture on heart surgeries and heart attacks. I got to sit in on the lecture and learn about pre-op and post-op care of heart surgery patients. During post op, nurses are to watch for changes in blood pressure, body temperature, white blood count, incision, and check for possibilities of infection. Then the lecture moved on to learns about warning signs for each of the above and how to treat them. The second half of the lecture focused on heart attacks. It covered how to know whether the patient was having a STEMI or NSTEMI heart attack. A STEMI attack requires immediate care and will result in death within minutes. A NSTEMI heart attack is less severe and does not require immediate attention. A STEMI heart attack will show a different EKG then a NSTEMI heart attack as seen below.
