Nursing care during myocardial infarction in evolution
Keywords:
Nursing Care, Patient-Centered Care, Myocardial Infarction, Infarction, Clinical EvolutionAbstract
Acute myocardial infarction is one of the most important causes of death in developed countries. Although in our environment we do not have statistics regarding the proportion with which it affects general mortality, it is a fact that sclerous arthritis of the coronary arteries, cause of infarction, is becoming more frequent and has come to displace from the first places other entities of cardiological pathology such as rheumatic diseases.
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