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- Coronary artery disease (CAD)
- interventional cardiology
- coronary intervention (PCI)
- EBM
- STEMI
- stable angina
- NSTEMI
- paediatric cardiology
- heart transplant
- congenital heart disease
- allied specialities
- anaesthetics
- emergency medicine
We thank Dr Lin and colleagues1 for their comments regarding the outcomes of 30-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in the pre-defined subgroup analysis of the Ongoing Tirofiban In Myocardial infarction Evaluation 2 trial (On-TIME 2).2 There are different aspects of their comments that can be addressed.
First, although prehospital use of high dose tirofiban reduces the use of bail-out study medication, and this need for bail-out study medication was associated with a less …
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