What's the Youngest CAD/MI Pt. You've Had?

lalaxton · Oct 7, 2005

I have the winner....
An 11 year old female w/advanced coronary disease, had been a smoker for 12 years, diabetic for 12 1/2 years...strong family history (both parents died in middle school from MI's.)

Do you mean she was 21??, both parents where in middle school when they died, or do you mean the patient was in middle school?

The youngest patient I had was 23, large anterior MI. Was upset because he couldn't eat his daily cheeseburger anymore! Obviously family history was also a factor, his dad had an MI a month after his son! (he was 55)

Dinith88 · Oct 7, 2005

Do you mean she was 21??, both parents where in middle school when they died, or do you mean the patient was in middle school?
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sorry...bad joke :stone

sarahRN482 · Oct 14, 2005

When I started working on the stepdown unit I'm at now, we had to take and EKG class during orientation. They were showing us how to set up the monitors in the IMC rooms just for the heck of it, and we volunteered a guy in our group to be hooked up to the 12 lead. Right away our instructor (Cardiac ICU nurse) picked up on delta waves on the 12 lead. We took the 12 lead and asked a Dr. who happened to on the floor and he said sure enough it was WPW. All happened on a fluke, very weird.......

Skejnurse · Nov 8, 2005

26 years old. Severe stenosis of all three coronary vesels. No family history of coronary artery problems, smoked 5 cigarettes a day. Needed triple bypass.

That was a tough experience for her.

Renee_RN · Nov 8, 2005

A friend of the family died of a massive MI at 29 years old. He had no health problems except a strong family history. Due to weather conditions, he was transported critical care ground versus lifeflight where he coded in the ambulance. By the time he made it to the facility, he was brain dead.

Renee